{"id":180,"date":"2026-09-11T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synapseedge.co.uk\/blog\/workshops\/building-production-ai-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:10:28","slug":"building-production-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/synapseedge.co.uk\/blog\/workshops\/building-production-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Production AI Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"se-wk-summary\">Agent demos are easy. Agents you can leave running are not. This day is about everything between the two: controlling what an agent may do, knowing whether it is right, and being able to debug it at 3am. Written for people who will own the thing in production.<\/p>\n<h3>What you will leave with<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"se-wk-outcomes\">\n<li>Design an agent architecture that fails safely under load<\/li>\n<li>Implement approval gates and human-in-the-loop for consequential actions<\/li>\n<li>Build an evaluation set so you can tell whether a change helped<\/li>\n<li>Instrument agents for tracing, cost attribution and debugging<\/li>\n<li>Choose sensibly between single agent, multi-agent and plain workflow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Agenda<\/h3>\n<table class=\"se-wk-agenda\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>09:00<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Anatomy of an agent: perceive, reason, act \u2014 and where each fails<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>09:50<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Tool design: idempotency, permissions and blast radius<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>10:50<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Orchestration patterns \u2014 routing, delegation, and knowing when not to<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>11:40<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Guardrails: input filtering, output validation, action allowlists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>13:30<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Human-in-the-loop: approval gates that people will actually use<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>14:30<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Evaluation \u2014 building a test set for a non-deterministic system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>15:30<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Observability: tracing, cost attribution, failure forensics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\"><time>16:20<\/time><\/th>\n<td>Capstone: harden a fragile agent until it can be trusted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Who it is for<\/h3>\n<p>Engineers and technical leads who will be responsible for an agent once it is live.<\/p>\n<h3>Prerequisites<\/h3>\n<p>Confident Python or JavaScript, and prior exposure to LLM APIs or agent frameworks.<\/p>\n<h3>Format<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"se-wk-format\">\n<li><strong>Duration:<\/strong> Full day (09:00\u201317:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Level:<\/strong> Advanced<\/li>\n<li><strong>Group size:<\/strong> maximum 10 attendees<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delivery:<\/strong> live online, or in person by arrangement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"se-wk-bespoke\"><em>Need this for a whole team, or extended to full length on your own systems? 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