Agent flight recorder diagram showing prompt, files changed, commands, tests, approvals, and rollback notes between a coding agent and deployment gate

Claude Code Agents Need a Flight Recorder

If a Claude Code agent changes production code, the useful artifact is not the chat transcript. It is a flight recorder: intent, boundaries, commands, diffs, tests, approvals, and rollback notes.

April 27, 2026 · 6 min · 1081 words · Thomas De Vos
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Claude Code production agent loop: task intent, boundaries, tool execution, evaluation, observability, human review, and deployment

Claude Code Is Not the Product: The Production Loop Is

A Claude Code demo is easy to love. You describe a feature, the agent edits files, runs commands, fixes its own mistakes, and suddenly the repository has moved. The first time you see it work, it feels like software engineering has skipped a generation. But the demo is not the hard part. The hard part is making that same capability safe enough, repeatable enough, and observable enough that you would trust it inside a real engineering workflow. That is where the actual product begins. ...

April 25, 2026 · 5 min · 904 words · Thomas De Vos
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