# Blog Agent-native infrastructure, MCP, and building backends AI agents can operate. Search blog posts 42 posts shown [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/the-production-ai-agent-checklist) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) August 1 Reliability & production ## The Production AI Agent Checklist: Infrastructure, Security, and Reliability A production AI agent checklist for scoped access, safe writes, approval gates, traces, recovery, and repeatable evaluations. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-governance-policies-for-autonomous-software) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 31 Reliability & production ## AI Agent Governance: Policies for Autonomous Software Turn agent governance into enforceable rules for identity, actions, approvals, spend, data, models, tools, evidence, exceptions, and incidents. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-to-debug-an-ai-agent-that-uses-the-wrong-tool) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 30 Reliability & production ## How to Debug an AI Agent That Uses the Wrong Tool Debug wrong-tool failures by freezing the visible tool set, inspecting traces, finding schema overlap, and testing selection separately from execution. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-failure-recovery-retries-checkpoints-human-approval) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 29 Reliability & production ## AI Agent Failure Recovery: Retries, Checkpoints, and Human Approval Recover AI agent workflows with error classes, idempotency, checkpoints, reconciliation, bounded retries, approval, cancellation, and compensation. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/sandboxing-ai-agents-secure-code-execution) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 27 Reliability & production ## Sandboxing AI Agents: A Practical Guide to Secure Code Execution Sandbox agent-generated code with filesystem, process, network, credential, resource, artifact, lifetime, and cleanup controls matched to its threat model. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-security-identity-permissions-secrets-audit-logs) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 26 Reliability & production ## AI Agent Security: Identity, Permissions, Secrets, and Audit Logs Secure AI agents with represented identity, downstream authorization, scoped credentials, approval gates, secret isolation, and useful audit records. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-evaluations-testing-before-production) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 25 Reliability & production ## AI Agent Evaluations: How to Test Agents Before Production Build AI agent evaluations with representative tasks, deterministic checks, model judges, repeated runs, safety cases, and release gates. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-observability-what-to-monitor) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 24 Reliability & production ## AI Agent Observability: What Should You Monitor? Monitor AI agents across model calls, tool selection, policy checks, backend effects, retries, cost, quality, and recovery with one trace. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-compute-escalation-ladder) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 22 Architecture ## The AI Agent Compute Escalation Ladder: Function, Sandbox, or VM? Choose agent compute by code trust, network access, lifetime, state, latency, and isolation: API call, job, process, container, sandbox, or VM. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/multi-tenant-infrastructure-for-ai-agents) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 21 Architecture ## Multi-Tenant AI Agent Infrastructure: Isolation, Limits, and Shared State Design tenant isolation for agent identity, databases, queues, caches, tools, artifacts, quotas, logs, credentials, and deletion paths. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/database-design-patterns-for-ai-agent-applications) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 19 Architecture ## Database Design Patterns for AI Agent Applications Database patterns for agent tasks, idempotent operations, checkpoints, audit events, outboxes, tenant isolation, leases, and trace references. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/persistent-state-for-long-running-ai-agents) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 18 Architecture ## How to Build Persistent State for Long-Running AI Agents Design persistent agent state for resumable tasks, human approvals, checkpoints, concurrent workers, schema changes, retention, and recovery. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/durable-execution-for-ai-agents) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 17 Architecture ## Durable Execution for AI Agents: Checkpoints, Retries, and Recovery Durable execution lets AI agents resume after crashes without repeating completed side effects. Learn checkpoints, idempotency, retries, and reconciliation. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-to-design-an-agent-control-plane) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 16 Architecture ## How to Design an Agent Control Plane Design an agent control plane for identity, policy, credentials, operations, approvals, audit records, limits, and resource ownership. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-architecture-memory-tools-state-durable-execution) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 15 Architecture ## AI Agent Architecture: Memory, Tools, State, and Durable Execution A practical AI agent architecture that separates the model loop, tools, identity, state, memory, durable execution, backend services, and telemetry. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/mcp-tool-design-compared-composio-arcade-devtools) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 14 MCP ## MCP Tool Design Compared: Composio, Arcade.dev, and Building Your Own Choose Composio for broad SaaS actions, Arcade for authenticated tool execution, RapidMCP for endpoint wrapping, or custom MCP for product-specific tasks. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/the-mcp-infrastructure-stack) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 13 MCP ## The MCP Infrastructure Stack: Servers, Gateways, Tools, and Permissions A production MCP stack includes transport, protocol servers, authentication, tool routing, policy, execution credentials, operation state, and telemetry. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-ai-agents-safely-manage-cloud-infrastructure-through-mcp) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 12 MCP ## How AI Agents Can Safely Manage Cloud Infrastructure Through MCP Safe infrastructure tools separate plan and apply, scope identity, protect credentials, require approval, reconcile retries, trace effects, and support recovery. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/mcp-security-api-keys) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 11 MCP ## MCP Security: How to Keep API Keys Away From AI Agents Keep provider keys out of prompts, tool arguments, results, URLs, browser code, and logs. Let the MCP server use separate scoped upstream credentials. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-to-design-mcp-tools-agents-can-use-reliably) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 10 MCP ## How to Design MCP Tools That AI Agents Can Use Reliably Reliable MCP tools have distinct task names, bounded schemas, scoped authorization, structured results, stable errors, safe writes, and selection evaluations. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/why-semantic-apis-are-better-for-ai-agents) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 9 MCP ## Why Semantic APIs Are Better Than Raw APIs for AI Agents Task-level agent tools state when to use them, when not to, required context, side effects, and results. Raw endpoint shapes rarely provide enough meaning. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/mcp-authentication-and-authorization-guide) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 8 MCP ## The Complete Guide to MCP Authentication and Authorization Secure remote MCP servers with OAuth discovery, PKCE, resource indicators, audience-bound tokens, downstream authorization, and separate upstream credentials. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-to-turn-any-rest-api-into-an-mcp-server) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 7 MCP ## How to Turn Any REST API Into an MCP Server Wrap a REST API in an MCP server with task-level tools, validated schemas, scoped authentication, and structured errors. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/mcp-servers-vs-apis) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) July 6 MCP ## MCP Servers vs. APIs: Which Interface Should AI Agents Use? Use an API or SDK for fixed application code and MCP when a model needs runtime tool discovery. Most production MCP tools call an API underneath. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/what-is-mcp-infrastructure) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) July 5 MCP ## What Is MCP Infrastructure and Why Does It Matter for AI Agents? MCP infrastructure includes the client, transport, server, tools, authorization, policy, credentials, backend execution, state, and telemetry around MCP. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/agent-to-agent-and-human-communication-infrastructure) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 4 Agent-native backend ## AI Agent-to-Agent and Human Communication: Why Email and Messaging Are Backend Infrastructure Too AI agents need durable channels for approvals, completion notices, inbound work, and human replies, with identity, threading, delivery, and audit. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/best-backend-for-codex-and-windsurf) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 2 Agent-native backend ## Best Backend for Codex and Windsurf-Built Applications Codex and Windsurf can both call backend tools, but unattended tasks and IDE sessions need different approval, environment, retry, and handoff behavior. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-backend-infrastructure-for-startups) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) July 1 Agent-native backend ## AI Backend Infrastructure for Startups: What Should You Use? Choose startup backend infrastructure by who operates it, required services, compliance, migration needs, failure recovery, and cost per completed workflow. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/full-stack-app-with-claude-code-and-cohesivity-walkthrough) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 30 Agent-native backend ## Building a Full-Stack App With Claude Code and Cohesivity: A Complete Walkthrough Use Claude Code and Cohesivity to inspect a project, create an ephemeral tenant, provision Postgres and hosting, test a waitlist API, and deploy it. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/why-ai-generated-apps-still-need-better-backend-infrastructure) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) June 29 Agent-native backend ## Why AI-Generated Applications Still Need Better Backend Infrastructure AI-generated apps still need server-side secrets, authorization, tenant isolation, safe writes, budgets, migrations, and recovery before real users arrive. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/how-ai-coding-agents-provision-databases-auth-storage-hosting) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) June 28 Agent-native backend ## How AI Coding Agents Provision Databases, Auth, Storage, and Hosting A coding agent can bootstrap one Cohesivity tenant, read live service contracts, provision database, auth, storage, and hosting, then verify each result. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/best-backend-for-cursor-built-applications) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 27 Agent-native backend ## The Best Backend for Cursor-Built Applications Choose a Cursor backend by project creation, MCP and terminal support, permission scope, idempotent writes, development isolation, and deployment handoff. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/best-backend-for-claude-code-projects) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 26 Agent-native backend ## The Best Backend for Claude Code Projects Choose a Claude Code backend by whether its CLI or MCP path can create a scoped development project, recover writes, and deploy without leaking provider keys. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/build-a-backend-ai-coding-agents-can-operate) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) June 25 Agent-native backend ## How to Build a Backend That AI Coding Agents Can Operate An agent-operable backend exposes provisioning, status, credentials, safe writes, approvals, cleanup, and structured failures through callable contracts. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/best-backend-as-a-service-for-ai-agents) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)[Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) and [Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) June 24 Agent-native backend ## Best Backend-as-a-Service Platforms for AI Agents Compare backends for AI coding agents by project creation, authentication, tool scope, safe writes, hosting, ownership, and production access. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-infrastructure-costs) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) June 22 Foundational ## AI Agent Infrastructure Costs: Models, Storage, Compute, and Tool Calls Calculate AI agent cost per completed task across model tokens, paid tools, runtime, storage, retries, and idle resources instead of tracking one API bill. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/running-ai-agents-in-production) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) June 21 Foundational ## What Does It Take to Run an AI Agent in Production? Production AI agents need scoped access, bounded runs, safe writes, durable recovery, sandboxing, traces, evaluations, and a tested stop path. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/the-emerging-ai-agent-stack) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 20 Foundational ## The Emerging AI Agent Stack: Models, Tools, Memory, Runtime, and Infrastructure The AI agent stack separates reasoning, tools, identity, memory, execution, application infrastructure, and telemetry so each failure has one owner. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/why-ai-agents-need-their-own-backend-infrastructure) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 19 Foundational ## Why AI Agents Need Their Own Backend Infrastructure AI agents can use conventional backend services, but they need structured provisioning, scoped credentials, safe retries, and machine-readable failures. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agents-vs-traditional-saas-applications) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 18 Foundational ## The Difference Between AI Agents and Traditional SaaS Applications AI agents choose steps at runtime, while SaaS applications execute workflows designed in advance. That changes permissions, testing, interfaces, and costs. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/ai-agent-infrastructure-complete-guide-2026) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/anshu.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Anshu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanshuaggrawal120/) June 17 Foundational ## AI Agent Infrastructure: The Complete 2026 Guide AI agent infrastructure combines models, tools, identity, state, execution, application backends, and telemetry. Here is what each layer owns. [](https://cohesivity.ai/blog/what-is-agent-native-infrastructure) ![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/shouryamaan.webp)![](https://cohesivity.ai/authors/arag.webp)[Shouryamaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shouryamaanjain/) and [Arag](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aragagrawal/) June 16 Foundational ## What Is Agent-Native Infrastructure? A Guide for AI Developers Agent-native infrastructure lets an AI agent discover, provision, and operate backend resources through structured, permissioned interfaces. Skip the reading. Copy the onboarding prompt and your agent sets the backend up while you keep working.