8.7 Deployment & Runtimes¶

How to put an agent behind an endpoint that runs for ten minutes: serving shapes, queue and worker topology, supervision, managed agent platforms, and what you still own when a provider hosts the loop.

Also called: agent deployment, agent runtimes, managed agents, always-on agents, async agents.

Stub: scaffolding, not finished writing · planned for a later release. The skeleton below shows the beats this chapter will hit. Contributions welcome.

Why you'd reach for it¶

The problem, what breaks without it, and when you need it. To be written.

What it actually is¶

A crisp definition, the maturity call argued with cited evidence, and how it differs from its neighbours. To be written.

How to do it¶

The mechanics, with public tools named plainly where the reader can verify them; code only where a tested listing earns its place. To be written.

Gotchas¶

The real costs and when not to, feeding the Anti-Patterns Catalog. To be written.

In short¶

A weighted recommendation: what you would actually do. To be written.

Maturity: Established (the shapes) / Emerging (managed platforms) (sync, stream and async are settled; the hosted platforms are not) · Grounding: research · Last reviewed: 2026-08

Sources¶

Citations added as the chapter is written. Every non-obvious claim gets a footnote.