After the Guardrail That Saved My Infrastructure: My Autonomous Agent Architecture in Production

After the Guardrail That Saved My Infrastructure: My Autonomous Agent Architecture in Production Why do we assume autonomous agents are going to fail in a contained way? I've been asking myself that question for a while, but it wasn't academic until one of my agents nearly destroyed my infrastructure on Railway. What came after — the redesign, the permission architecture, the observability layer I built from scratch — is the stuff that never shows up in the Twitter threads celebrating "the agent