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# Agents in Production: How OpenGov Built and Scaled OG Assist - Gabe De Mesa, OpenGov

**[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Come and learn about building AI Agents in production. Learn hands-on directly with the AI Agents team from OpenGov which powers AI workflows across thousands of state and local governments.

This session will cover:
* The core agent loop/harness
* A2A protocol
* Building with Effect-TS and Typescript
* Feedback and evals
* Long context handling
* Monitoring and observability
* Building out tools and skills
* Enterprise contribution model
* Accelerating workflows with Claude and Cursor

Speakers:
- Gabe De Mesa (OpenGov): Gabe works on the flagship AI Agent product offering at OpenGov which serves thousands of state and local governments across the country. Gabe was one of the first engineers to join the newly formed AI Agents team. He wanted to share the features he's built, experience he's gained building and running agents in production, battle scars gained from running with real production workloads and customers, architecture, and some best practices to help other engineers run agentic workloads at their companies.
  X/Twitter: https://x.com/jamesjellow
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabedemesa
  GitHub: https://github.com/gabedemesa

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