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AI decision architecture

Decisions API: seven gates for production

OpenAI made the Decisions API generally available for turning text, images, and JSON into predicates, choices, or scores. This guide explains where the endpoint fits, how to separate classification from execution, and what evaluation a decision needs before entering a product's critical path.

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Oct 24, 20268 min read · AI Systems
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AI Systems
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Distributed agents: when to parallelize analysis

More agents help only when work can be split without losing evidence. Seven decisions turn parallelism into evaluable coverage.

Distributed agentsMulti-agent systemsAI evaluation
Oct 22, 20267 min read
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Multimodal RAG: seven gates for trusting the evidence

Parsing, retrieving, and reranking are different contracts. Seven gates help decide whether a multimodal stack improves evidence without hiding new failure modes.

Multimodal RAGRetrievalAI evaluation
Oct 21, 20267 min read
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AI legacy migration: seven parity gates

A high benchmark score does not authorize a legacy migration. Seven gates turn code translation into evidence of parity and rollback.

Legacy migrationAI engineeringParity testing
Oct 20, 20268 min read
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Synthetic multilingual data: six release gates

Translating millions of documents does not create a trusted corpus. Six gates separate generation, acceptance, evaluation, and multilingual release.

Synthetic dataMultilingual AIData quality
Oct 19, 20267 min read
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Continuous agent evaluation: nine release gates

An agent can respond quickly and still be wrong. Nine gates connect offline evaluation, release, production, and verifiable learning.

Agent evaluationQuality regressionLLM as a judge
Oct 18, 20267 min read
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Open-weight models: five gates before self-hosting

Owning the weights is not the same as controlling the system. Five gates to decide whether an open-weight model deserves your infrastructure.

Open-weight modelsAI self-hostingInference
Oct 17, 20267 min read
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Illustration of an agent turning a vulnerable path into a patch and routing it through verification gates to human review.
AI Systems
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Agentic Autofix: six gates for accepting a security patch

Closing an alert does not prove that a patch is safe. This framework separates detection, remediation, regression, and the merge decision.

Agentic AutofixCodeQLSecurity remediation
Oct 16, 20267 min read
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An authority sends a verified policy to an agent: the current path enters the sandbox while a stale copy is blocked.
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Fresh agent policies: when to fail closed

A central policy cannot protect a client using a stale copy. Five gates turn freshness, precedence, and version into evidence.

Agent policiesFail closedAI governance
Oct 15, 20267 min read
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A telemetry filter lets minimal operational signals reach the observer while blocking sensitive prompts, code, tools, files, and paths.
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Agent telemetry: observe without capturing secrets

Attributing activity does not require copying prompts or code. Five decisions make agent telemetry useful, minimal, and auditable.

Agent telemetryOpenTelemetryAI privacy
Oct 14, 20267 min read
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