Engineering notes on keeping autonomous agents secure, solvent, and running.
Autonomous agents holding raw provider API keys are a breach waiting to happen. Here is how virtual key abstraction contains the blast radius — and why encryption at rest is not enough.
A single 429 can cascade into a stalled agent workflow, wasted compute, and silent data loss. Here is why exponential backoff and provider fallback both fail agents — and how key-pool shuffling fixes it.