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Agent Ops

Most agents look great in a demo and break in week two. Agent Ops is the operating discipline that prevents that: evals you trust, logs you read, retries you tune, and a way of knowing when an upgrade silently regressed a workflow that has been quietly running for months.

Below: everything we have published on agent ops.

Start here

Coverage of evals, observability, and the day-two operating discipline is on the roadmap. The first workflow article in this topic lands once we publish our internal eval harness.

All workflows

  • May 26, 2026 What is a cloud VM? A computer you rent that lives in someone else's data center. Always on. Accessible from anywhere. Where you run an agent when you do not want to keep your lapt…
  • May 26, 2026 What is a SQLite database? A whole database that lives in a single file on your computer. No server. No admin. No login. The thing most agent [harnesses](/articles/what-is-a-harness) use …
  • May 25, 2026 What are skills in Claude Code? The folder that turns a workflow you ran once into a capability Claude executes on command, forever.
  • May 6, 2026 Run autonomous workflows 24/7 with Claude Code Routines Set one recurring task to run on Anthropic's servers, with your laptop closed.
  • What is a CLAUDE.md file? The markdown file Claude reads on startup so it stops asking "what business are we in?" every time you open it.
  • What is a cron? The thing that makes your agent wake up on its own and do things for you without you having to be there to ask.
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