Frameworks worth piloting
LangGraph 0.1 landed a composability upgrade that moves away from linear chains. Supervisors can now branch and merge based on tool telemetry instead of hard-coded state. Pair this with event-driven tracing to keep evaluation automatic.
OpenAI Responses API now ships built-in tool result caching. For production teams, this trims latency while giving evaluators a consistent view of agent decision trees.
Evaluation & guardrails
- Weights & Biases added sequence diffing to their prompts dashboard—perfect for regression runs on high-risk prompts.
- Guardrails AI released a lightweight SDK for PII redaction that can sit between a dispatcher and tools. It’s wired for streaming, which keeps voice agents safe.
“If you can’t produce a daily trace bundle showing where your agent helped, harmed, or hesitated, you aren’t production ready.”
Policy & governance
EU AI Act draft annexes quietly added language recognizing “autonomous decision support agents” as a category. Expect downstream audits to look for explainability artifacts and opt-out mechanisms.
What’s next
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