Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoints in Autonomous Agent Workflows
Building human approval gates into agent workflows prevents catastrophic mistakes.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Staff Writer, Systems & Observability
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Saoirse began her career writing low-level systems documentation for a Dublin-based networking firm and transitioned to editorial work after co-authoring a widely circulated guide to distributed tracing in 2016. She covers the observability stack and integration architecture beats with an emphasis on operational clarity.
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Observability Gaps in the Current Agent Tooling Ecosystem
Current agent monitoring tools were built for single prompts, not multi-step decision chains.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Prompt Injection Detection in Production Agentic Pipelines
Attackers now bypass single-layer defenses by targeting trusted channels agents already use.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Agent Evaluation Frameworks Compared for Production Use
Build production confidence by layering unit tests, trajectory scoring, and live monitoring.
Saoirse Ó Floinn
Multi-Agent Platform Comparison for Production Deployments
LangGraph's explicit graph model and per-step checkpointing outperform alternatives at scale.
Saoirse Ó Floinn