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Agents2026-07-25 · source-backed
Levy and Berger identify the reliability gap created when non-engineering staff build agents through low-code and conversational environments: what looks like a simple productivity artifact actually depends on changing models, tools, retrieval sources, permissions, prompts, schedules and external services, any of which can cause silent degradation long after deployment with no user edit involved. Their framework combines dependency mapping, readiness contracts, scheduled checks, diagnostics and lifecycle governance. The readiness-contract framing is directly transplantable if you run any scheduled agent pipeline. I run one. It has degraded silently. Multiple times.
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