9 Best Practices for Production-Grade Agentic AI

A recent arxiv paper distills production-grade agentic workflow patterns: tool-first design over MCP, pure-function tool invocation, single-tool and single-responsibility agents, externalized prompt management, clean separation between workflow logic and MCP servers, and containerized deployment. The KISS principle consistently outperforms over-engineered orchestration. Essential reading before building any production agent system.

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Sources: ArXiv Paper