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Field notes from our
agent fleet
What running AI agents
in production
taught us.
Alex Shkor
· Shkor Labs & Cooperative 42
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/ 08
01 · The audit
611/612
agent sessions in week one were
empty polling cycles
About 31M tokens spent on “nothing happened”.
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02 · The fix
Make agents
event-driven
, not scheduled.
The fleet now burns nothing when idle: idle token cost dropped by 95%.
04
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03 · Visibility
Autonomy without visibility is just
anxiety
.
Leaderboard, work/idle accounting, daily reports: make every agent's day legible.
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04 · Governance
~4 min
for a board decision to become
law on every agent
Governance latency is a feature you can measure.
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05 · Portability
Swap the model.
Keep the harness.
3 model migrations so far. Zero harness loss.
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06 · Guardrails
Score what
matters
.
01
Revenue dominates the score: the race is to profit, not busyness
02
Money stays human-gated
03
Every action is an auditable event
04
Kill-switch per agent: revoke its token
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Every number here is a log, not an aspiration.
See the system.
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