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Shadow-Mode Deployment for AI Agents
Run agents in shadow mode against production traffic before letting them act.
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- 1The premise
- 2shadow mode
- 3dual-running
- 4agent rollout
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Section 1
The premise
Shadow mode is the safest way to evaluate agent behavior on real workloads before granting write access.
What AI does well here
- Mirror real requests to the agent without exposing its outputs to users.
- Diff agent decisions against the human or rule-based baseline.
- Flag high-disagreement cases for human review.
What AI cannot do
- Catch issues that only emerge when the agent's actions feed back into the system.
- Substitute for a real canary once the agent is taking action.
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