# Six Principles for Production AI Agents

DevFeed: [Six Principles for Production AI Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/six-principles-for-production-ai-agents-5793.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/six-principles-for-production-ai-agents>)

Author: Arseni Kravchenko

Published: 2025-07-28T16:40:21Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Prompt Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/prompt-engineering.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

This beginner-oriented article presents six empirical lessons from developing app.build for production AI agents. The supplied excerpts emphasize direct, detailed, contradiction-free context for modern LLMs; practical prompt and context engineering; using research-generated drafts as a starting point for system prompts; and structuring large, stable system context separately from smaller dynamic user messages to benefit prompt caching. It also explains that context management involves trade-offs because insufficient or excessive context can cause hallucinations, loss of focus, or refusals.

## Source excerpt

Every now and then, people ask me: "I am new to agentic development, I'm building something, but I feel like I'm missing some tribal knowledge. Help me catch up!" I'm tempted to suggest some serious stuff like multiweek courses (e.g. by HuggingFace or Berkeley), but not everyone...