A diagram showing the risky handoff between an AI agent demo and production use

The agent demo is not the risk. The handoff is.

AI agent demos fail quietly when teams hand them to real workflows without scope, authority, evidence, and rollback. This is where Claude Code practice and enterprise agent security meet.

July 8, 2026 · 5 min · 874 words · Thomas De Vos
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A Claude Code workflow that starts with a narrow task, widens permissions, and needs a permission budget before production use

Claude Code permission drift is how safe agent workflows become unsafe

Claude Code can start with a narrow task and end up with broad tool access. Treat permission changes like production changes: log them, review them, and tie them to rollback.

July 7, 2026 · 5 min · 1053 words · Thomas De Vos
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Why CCAR-F wrong answers sound tempting

The hardest CCAR-F distractors are often almost right. Learn to spot the architectural boundary they quietly cross.

July 6, 2026 · 2 min · 386 words · Thomas De Vos
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The Claude Architect exam is a judgment exam, not a memory test

CCAR-F study should train scenario judgment: what failed, which boundary was crossed, and which answer makes the agent architecture safer and more reliable.

July 6, 2026 · 3 min · 434 words · Thomas De Vos
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Cover of Architect the Agent: The CCAR-F Certification Guide

Architect the Agent: CCAR-F Certification Guide is live

My new Leanpub guide for the Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam is live. It focuses on scenario judgment, distractor analysis, practice exams, and the production architecture behind the badge.

July 6, 2026 · 2 min · 393 words · Thomas De Vos
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A production AI agent flow with request, approval, action, evidence, and revocation path

If the agent can act, it must be easy to stop

Production AI agents need a revocation path before they get wider authority. If a Claude Code run, MCP tool, workflow agent, or RAG assistant goes wrong, the team should know exactly how to stop it.

July 6, 2026 · 5 min · 880 words · Thomas De Vos
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An agent permission change moving through proposal, review, tests, approval, rollout, and rollback

Permission changes are releases

Every new agent permission is a production change. Treat new MCP methods, data sources, write paths, credentials, and approval bypasses like releases with evidence and rollback.

July 5, 2026 · 5 min · 999 words · Thomas De Vos
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A bridge from a Claude Code run to an enterprise AI agent, connected by one control record

The control record is the bridge

Claude Code rollout and enterprise AI agent security need the same artifact: a control record that explains scope, authority, evidence, approval, and rollback.

July 4, 2026 · 5 min · 977 words · Thomas De Vos
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A production AI agent rollout flow showing scope, authority, evidence, and release controls before autonomy expands

Put agent security before the rollout

Production AI agents need scoped authority, run evidence, approval gates, and rollback before the rollout expands. This is where Claude Code delivery work and enterprise agent security meet.

July 3, 2026 · 5 min · 1012 words · Thomas De Vos
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A production AI agent evidence loop showing task contract, bounded tools, run record, approval gate, and rollback path

If the agent cannot explain the run, do not scale it

Production AI agents need more than good output. Before a team scales Claude Code or enterprise agents, the run must explain its task, tools, evidence, approval, and rollback path.

July 2, 2026 · 6 min · 1096 words · Thomas De Vos
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