7 Design Principles for Production-Grade Autonomous Agents with Claude Code SDK
Building a Claude Code SDK agent that works is easy. Building one that keeps working in production is hard. Here are the 7 design principles I extracted from running content automation systems at scale.
Claude Mythos in Production: A Deployment Playbook From Internals to Operations
Most Claude Mythos coverage stops at conceptual overviews. This playbook covers actual production deployment — System Card highlights that change implementation, gateway architecture, sandboxing, prompt-injection defense, monitoring, and scaling — with patterns from running Mythos-aware services.
Building a Production-Grade Contract Review System with the Claude API — Risk Detection, Version Diffing, and Remediation Suggestions
A complete production guide for automating contract review with the Claude API: PDF parsing, risk clause detection, structured JSON output, version diffing, and remediation suggestions.
Building a Cost-Optimized Multi-Provider AI Gateway with Claude API and LiteLLM — Fallback Design, A/B Testing, and Provider Migration Strategy
Learn how to build a production-grade multi-provider AI gateway centered on Claude API using LiteLLM. Covers fallback chain design, A/B testing, cost-based routing, and provider migration strategy with complete code examples.
Claude API × Inngest — Durable AI Workflows with Retries, Idempotency, and Human Approval
A production-grade pattern for combining Claude API with Inngest. Build TypeScript-first durable AI workflows that retry safely, stay idempotent, gate dangerous calls behind human approval, and run on Vercel or Cloudflare Workers.
Production Infrastructure for Claude API — 8 Things You Need Between 'It Works' and 'It Holds Up'
There is a much bigger gap than you'd think between a working Claude API call on your laptop and a service that survives real users. Here are the eight pieces of infrastructure I now consider non-negotiable, learned the hard way.
Claude Code Context Window Mastery — 7 Production Patterns to Stop Sessions From Stalling
Most slowdowns and silent quality drops in Claude Code on large repos come from context window management, not from model limits. This guide walks through seven patterns I rely on in production, with measurement scripts and runtime rules.
Reading Claude API stop_reason Correctly — A Production Guide to end_turn, max_tokens, pause_turn, and refusal
Branching on Claude API's stop_reason properly eliminates a surprising number of production incidents — truncated outputs, missed tool continuations, wasted retries. Here is how to tell end_turn, max_tokens, pause_turn, and refusal apart.
Secret Management and Trust Boundaries for Claude Code — A Production Guide for the Agent Era
A field-tested approach to secrets in a Claude Code workflow: trust-boundary modeling, three injection patterns, leak-prevention hooks, and rotation runbooks — with working code for .env, MCP, and OS Keychain integrations.
Giving Claude Agents Long-Term Memory in Production — Seven Pitfalls and the Patterns That Fix Them
A production playbook for Claude agents with long-term memory — seven pitfalls that break memory agents live, and the design patterns that fix each one.
Production Prompt-Injection Defense for the Claude API — Detection, Sanitization, and Layered Guardrails
A practical, code-first design guide for defending Claude API applications against prompt injection — covering input sanitization, channel separation, output validation, and red-teaming for long-term safety.
The Claude Design to Claude Code Handoff — A Production-Ready Playbook
A detailed field guide to chaining Claude Design and Claude Code into one workflow — prompt templates, cleanup commands, and the 12-point checklist I run before shipping.