27 November 2025 / Applied AI / 8 chapters

Self-hosting an AI agent: architecture, observability and recovery

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A self-hosted agent can appear healthy while its memory store, tool credentials or job runner is unavailable. This guide starts with those partial failures and builds the health checks and recovery tests around them.

Chapter 1: Treat partial failure as an ordinary operating state

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