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What should you ask before adopting an agent mesh vendor?
The questions a technical evaluation should ask before the first pilot, not after the first incident.
The answer
Ask for the vendor’s own published status — proof of concept, live, or somewhere between — rather than accepting a sales deck’s framing; ask who is accountable for the authority boundary on your side of the integration; and ask what happens when an agent action needs to be reversed. A vendor who cannot answer the third question in specifics has not operated the mesh in production themselves.
The status question matters more than it looks
Agent coordination platforms are, as a category, young enough that "live" and "proof of concept" both appear in reputable estates today. This practice’s own platform catalogue carries that distinction explicitly rather than rounding up, because a licensing buyer who discovers the gap on a technical call loses trust in everything else on the page.
Checklist
What is the platform’s own published status?
Not the pitch — the vendor’s own documentation. A platform describing itself as a proof of concept should be evaluated as one, whatever the deck says.
Who is accountable for the authority boundary?
The mesh vendor builds the coordination layer. Somebody else has to own what an agent may do inside your systems, and it should be named in the contract, not assumed.
What is the rollback for a bad action?
Ask for the runbook, not the assurance. If it has never been executed on staging, it is a paragraph, not a control.
What evidence does a decision leave?
Inputs, policy version, output, and the human action — reconstructable long after the fact, not just logged at the time.
What is the support and incident posture?
A status page with no incident history reads as software with no users. Ask what happened the last time something broke, and how you were told.
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