I write practical articles for developers who want to make better decisions. Focus on software architecture, modern tooling, and lessons learned in the field.
Compensation is a capability with an expiry. Put a human approval inside a saga and the undo window math stops being optional, and a validator that can't know the wait time has to fail closed.
MCP, A2A, and AP2 standardized how agents find each other and speak. None of them standardize what happens when step four fails and steps one through three already happened.
An agent that reads your pipeline is cheap and useful. An agent that can deploy is a new class of production incident. Here's where the line goes, and how to enforce it in GitHub Actions.
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