Architecture, orchestration, memory, evaluation, and production patterns for agent systems.
32 articles
Dify (145k Stars, $30M Pre-A) is the benchmark for open-source LLM app platforms. From Docker deployment to RAG pipelines, agent orchestration and MCP integration — this article takes you end-to-end.
Traditional vector RAG only finds "similar chunks." GraphRAG extracts entities and relationships into a knowledge graph, letting agents understand "who, where, when, and how things connect." Compare Microsoft GraphRAG vs LightRAG approaches.
Voice AI agents are the next frontier. LiveKit (11k Stars, powering ChatGPT's Advanced Voice) offers a complete framework. This article breaks down the pipeline and walks through building production-ready voice agents.
A practical walkthrough of Cline's three deployment modes — CLI, VS Code extension, and Kanban — with MCP integration and human-in-the-loop coding workflow patterns.
A production walkthrough of LiteLLM based on official docs and its 51k-star repo: Virtual Keys, Guardrails, routing, and Postgres-backed cost governance.
A code-grounded walkthrough of OpenManus architecture, tool layer, browser automation, MCP extension, local deployment, and comparison with LangGraph and CrewAI.
Using Ray's distributed runtime to scale agent prototypes from a single machine to horizontally scalable cluster deployments.
A side-by-side comparison of five sandbox technologies, weighing latency, security, and ops cost.
Five-layer defense plus red-team loop, built on five open-source projects you can copy.
Decomposes five open-source deep-research projects across three sub-stages with reusable query-rewriting code.
Four LLM gateways compared, with production patterns for fallback, smart routing, cost observability, and scheduling.
Most teams evaluate agents by checking a few examples. Real evaluation needs layered metrics, non-rotting datasets, and judges that push back. This article provides runnable code patterns and a practical decision framework.
Most agent workflows fail at the orchestration layer, not the model. A practical comparison of DAG, state machine, and visual builder approaches with production-ready code for error handling, human approval gates, and conditional branching.
A deep architectural comparison of seven open-source coding agents across three paradigms — CLI-first, IDE-integrated, and fully autonomous — examining context management, tool access, and autonomy levels to help you pick the right tool for each development scenario.
Breaking down three abstraction layers for browser automation—from raw Playwright to structured extraction—with production patterns, runnable code, and common pitfalls.
A deep dive into the four-layer agent memory architecture, with practical code for vector retrieval and memory compression to help you build scalable long-term memory systems.
A systematic guide to the three pillars of agent observability — distributed tracing, metrics monitoring, and automated evaluation — for building production-grade agent monitoring.
A systematic walkthrough of three major attack surfaces in AI agents, with practical code examples for prompt injection defense, tool permission scoping, and output filtering.
Comparing container, WebAssembly, and process-level isolation approaches, with practical code for safely executing agent-generated code.
Build a production-grade MCP server from scratch, covering tool definition, authentication design, and testing strategies to turn any API into an agent-ready tool.
From protocol modeling and server design to permission isolation, this guide shows how to build a stable tool integration layer for AI agents with MCP.
Based on real production experience, this guide explains how to build a closed loop of tracing, evaluation, and cost analytics for AI agents with Langfuse.
Focused on structured outputs, tool calling, and error recovery, this article presents practical PydanticAI patterns for production systems.
A practical breakdown of browser-use strengths and limits in web task automation, with strategies for stable execution and failure recovery.
Production-focused best practices for index design, filtering, reranking, and evaluation when building RAG retrieval layers with Qdrant.
An in-depth guide on how MetaGPT achieves full software development automation through role-playing, including practical guidance for PM, Architect, Engineer collaboration.
Learn how to evaluate RAG systems using Ragas and DeepEval, including measuring key metrics like faithfulness, answer relevance, and context precision.
Learn how to build stateful AI agents with long-term memory using Letta (formerly MemGPT), solving the LLM context window limitation.
An in-depth comparison of mainstream AI agent frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen to help you choose the best development stack.
A hands-on guide to building a complete AI agent from scratch, covering environment setup, core components, and tool integration.
A deep dive into principles, architecture patterns, and best practices for building efficient multi-agent collaboration systems.
An in-depth explanation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and how to build private knowledge bases for AI agents to improve accuracy and reliability.