--- title: 7 Things For Agents in Production | daily.dev description: A practical checklist of seven critical concerns for deploying multi-user AI agents to production: (1) model control via a unified abstraction layer to swap... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/7-things-for-agents-in-production-muaa2suh4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 7 Things For Agents in Production | daily.dev og:description: A practical checklist of seven critical concerns for deploying multi-user AI agents to production: (1) model control via a unified abstraction layer to swap... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-things-for-agents-in-production-muaa2suh4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/muAa2Suh4.png og:image:alt: 7 Things For Agents in Production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 7 Things For Agents in Production **[Sam Witteveen](https://daily.dev/sources/samwitteveenai)** · 15 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical checklist of seven critical concerns for deploying multi-user AI agents to production: (1) model control via a unified abstraction layer to swap providers easily, (2) prompt management with versioning and a prompt registry, (3) guardrails for input/output filtering including PII/PHI compliance, (4) budget limiting to prevent runaway API costs, (5) tool and MCP server authentication centralized through a gateway, (6) monitoring and distributed tracing for every request and response, and (7) evals both pre- and post-deployment to catch regressions. The video is sponsored by TrueFoundry, which is used to demonstrate each concept, but the checklist applies to any platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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