A Tool-Using Agent Needs Server-Side Authorization
Treat model-generated tool calls as proposed actions. Validate permissions, scope, arguments, budgets, and approval at execution time.
Agentic Systems 3 min read
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Notes from building and operating AI systems, commerce platforms and the measurement around them.
AI Search for Company Documents: Beyond a Shared Folder
Plan AI search for company documents around source ownership, employee access, current answers and the real questions your team struggles to resolve.
AI for Business 4 min read
Moventoro: Keeping Transport Teams on One Order Lifecycle
How I approach Moventoro’s shared order lifecycle across planning, warehouse operations, drivers, tracking and administration.
Backend Architecture 3 min read
Human Approval Should Expire When the Plan Changes
Tie approval to a concrete action, target, input version and lifetime, so an agent cannot carry permission from one proposal into a different operation.
Agentic Systems 3 min read
Velgrina AI Remodel: Separating Photo Understanding from Image Generation
Inside Velgrina’s AI Remodel feature: kitchen-photo understanding, image generation, daily limits and an administrative provider switch.
AI Engineering 3 min read
AI Workflow Automation for Customer Onboarding
Design customer onboarding automation around completed setup, clear ownership and a first useful outcome, with AI helping to interpret incoming information.
AI for Business 4 min read
Streaming LLM Responses: Cancellation and Backpressure Matter
A reliable streaming response needs explicit lifecycle events, bounded buffering, upstream cancellation, and a clear policy for partial answers.
Backend Architecture 3 min read
How to Scope an AI Agent Proof of Concept
Scope an AI agent proof of concept around one business question, representative cases, clear exclusions and an agreed decision about the next step.
AI Automation Consulting 4 min read
Velgrina: Building AI Product Help into an Online Store
A project note on Velgrina’s streaming AI product-help chat and the difference between a fluent answer and a useful shopping interaction.
AI Engineering 3 min read
Custom AI Development or No-Code Tools: Which Fits?
Compare custom AI development and no-code tools using integration depth, ownership, exceptions and operating effort before choosing how to build.
AI for Business 3 min read
The Transactional Outbox Closes One Gap, Not Every Gap
Use an outbox to connect database changes with event publication, then address duplicate delivery, ordering, and external side effects separately.
Backend Architecture 3 min read
Make Long-Running Agents Resume from Durable State
Design agent jobs around persisted decisions and accepted effects, so an interruption does not force the system to guess what already happened.
Agentic Systems 3 min read