Agents deserve an architecture layer of their own rather than being lumped into frontend or backend, since they don’t behave quite the same as people or programs.
Observability gives us a window into how an AI agent is working throughout its run, allowing us to improve its performance. Here’s how to add observability to a Genkit agent with Progress Agent Engineering.
Coding agents, workflows, orchestration and platforms do four different jobs, and swapping one for another surfaces in production as an incident no test suite predicted.