Production Deployment Checklist

Production Deployment Checklist
Before Launch 
 ●       Secrets in vault 
 ●       Rate limiting 
 ●       Retry logic 
 ●       Queueing 
 ●       Structured logs 
 ●       Health checks 
 ●       DB pooling 
 ●       CI/CD 
 ●       Rollback strategy 
 ●       Human approval console 
 ●       Policy engine live 
 ●       Audit logs enabled 
 ●       Monitoring dashboards 
 ●       Incident runbooks 
 ●       MCP servers pinned to a known-good tool-definition hash, with re-approval required on change (New) 
 ●       OAuth issuer validation enabled on every MCP client (New) 
  

Build Strategy
Build in This Order 
 ●       Single agent + retrieval 
 ●       Add memory (start with Pattern B — retrieval-augmented) 
 ●       Add tools via MCP 
 ●       Add policy engine 
 ●       Add verifier 
 ●       Add human approvals 
 ●       Add multi-agent roles 
 ●       Optimize cost routing 
 ●       Formalize the harness — write down the planner/executor/verifier contracts and context-assembly rules as a versioned spec, not implicit code structure (New) 
 ●       Add simulations/evals, including harness-vs-model attribution (New) 
 ●       Expand autonomy slowly