Production readiness

Overview

Production readiness is a control discipline, not only a deployment milestone.

• Define success and failure before routing.
• Use explicit time and cost ceilings.
• Select privacy and regional boundaries.
• Reconcile usage and provider evidence.
• Exercise retry, fallback, denial, and human-review paths.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.