12-Factor Agents
Principles for agents that hold up in production.
The repository collects engineering principles for keeping agent systems understandable and controllable in production. Compare those principles with your own application's state, execution and recovery boundaries.
- Level
- Advanced
- Models
- any
- Category
- Agents and harnesses
- Tags
- production
- Source date
- date not stated
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
- Prerequisites
- Production-agent engineering and code-level control flow assume prior implementation experience.
- Subcategory
- agent design patterns
- Region
- West
- Original language
- en
- Access
- free
- Resource reuse
- open: Source states CC-BY-SA-4.0. Applies to the linked resource, not every referenced model or dataset. Facet definitions
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