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The Quarterly Agent Review: Expand, Fix or Retire Each Workflow
A practical quarterly checklist for deciding whether to expand, fix, pause or retire an AI-agent workflow—using operational evidence, not model enthusiasm.
A Production Readiness Review for Microsoft Foundry Agents
A practical release checklist for Microsoft Foundry agents, covering security, quality, operations and cost gates before production.
Browser Agent Launch Review: A Go/No-Go Worksheet
A practical browser-agent go/no-go worksheet: define the release slice, collect evidence, test failure paths, and record a defensible launch decision.
What a CTO Should Ask Before Approving the Next Frontier Model
A CTO’s release checklist for testing a frontier model against real workloads, operational limits and reversible production gates before approving a change.
Sonnet 5.5 Migration: Build a Regression Suite Before Switching
A practical Sonnet 5.5 migration checklist: baseline prompts, tools and real tasks, define release gates, and make a reversible decision from evidence.
Designing Approval Gates for Browser-Based Payments and Refunds
A practical checklist for previewing browser-based payments and refunds, limiting authority, requiring approval and verifying the final transaction receipt.
A Model Exit Plan: Reducing Lock-In Without Building an Abstraction Maze
A practical model exit checklist: map dependencies, test portability against real workflows, and keep only the abstraction that makes a switch manageable.
Buying an AI Agent: Questions for Security, Procurement and Engineering
A practical buyer checklist for matching security, procurement and engineering evidence to an AI agent’s actual data, tools, autonomy and failure impact.
An Agent Incident Runbook: Stop, Contain, Investigate and Resume
A practical agent incident checklist for stopping harmful work, preserving evidence, tracing impact and resuming service through controlled verification.
Cross-Tenant Agent Security: A Negative-Test Matrix
A practical negative-test matrix for checking whether an AI agent can expose one customer’s data, memory, tools or cached responses to another.
GPT-6 Astra in Codex: A CTO’s Adoption Checklist
A practical CTO checklist for evaluating GPT-6 Astra in Codex, controlling repository access and review, and rolling out only against measured success criteria.
From AI Pilot to Production: The CTO’s Decision Checklist
A practical CTO checklist for deciding whether an AI pilot is ready to ship, what evidence to require, and who owns the work when it reaches production.
Choosing a Claude Implementation Partner: Evidence to Ask For
A practical checklist for verifying a Claude partner’s designation, delivery references and operational accountability before you commit to implementation.