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The Plumbing Nobody Talks About: How Developers Are Building the Infrastructure Layer for AI Agents

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Introduction

Last month, a financial services firm deployed a multi-agent system to handle routine compliance checks. Three weeks in, it was pulled from production. The agents had been configured with shared API credentials across all third-party integrations -- there was no mechanism in the platform to do it differently....

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