How AI agents actually get deployed in production
What infrastructure it actually takes to run agents in production — the deployment topology, managed platforms, the self-hosted stack, sandboxing, gateways and serving economics — as it really runs in late 2025 into 2026.
Every claim carries a confidence tag
Findings ran through 3-vote adversarial fact-checking — a claim needed 2 of 3 votes to be killed. What survived, what's merely reported, and what got debunked are marked throughout.
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Appeared in sources but was refuted 0–3 in verification. Listed so you don't repeat a common myth.
How the landscape consolidated
From Anthropic open-sourcing MCP to protocol governance moving under the Linux Foundation — the plumbing standardized fast.