Self-Healing Agents in Production: How to Build Systems That Fix Themselves
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Most agent failures don't announce themselves. There's no crash, no alert, no stack trace. Your agent just quietly returns wrong answers, skips tool calls, or stalls mid-task — and you find out three hours later when a user complains. The gap between "works in dev" and "reliable in production" isn't about adding more retries. It's about building a system that can detect its own failures, classify them, and recover without waking you up at 2am.
Here's what a self-healing agent pipeline actually looks like in practice.
