# 5 Rules for Building AI Agents That Work in Production | Nan Yu & Jacob Shumway

DevFeed: [5 Rules for Building AI Agents That Work in Production | Nan Yu & Jacob Shumway](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/5-rules-for-building-ai-agents-that-work-in-production-nan-yu-jacob-shumway-34989.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://creatoreconomy.so/p/5-rules-for-building-ai-agents-in-production-linear-nan-jacob>)

Author: Peter Yang

Published: 2026-08-09T13:05:31Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Behind the Craft](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/behind-the-craft.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [evals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evals.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

A behind-the-scenes account of building a production AI agent end to end, including providing tools to find needed context and using evals to measure output quality.

## Source excerpt

A behind-the-scenes look at building a production AI agent end to end, including how to give it tools to find the context it needs and use evals to measure output quality.