Question 1

How long does it take to complete the checklist?

Accepted Answer

Most teams can go through all 30 items in 10–15 minutes. If you're working through it with your team, budget 30–45 minutes for discussion on items where you're uncertain.

Question 2

Do I need to score 100% before going to production?

Accepted Answer

Not necessarily. A score of 80%+ covering the evaluation and observability categories is a reasonable production baseline for most use cases. The items in the deployment and security category become more critical as your traffic and data sensitivity increase.

Question 3

Which categories matter most for a first production deployment?

Accepted Answer

Evaluation & Testing and Observability & Monitoring are the two highest-leverage categories. Teams that skip these reliably end up in a situation where they cannot tell whether the agent is working correctly in production — and cannot fix it efficiently when it isn't.

Question 4

Is this checklist specific to LangChain or LangGraph?

Accepted Answer

No. The checklist is framework-agnostic. Whether you're using LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, a custom orchestration layer, or a provider's built-in tool-calling API, the underlying architectural requirements are the same.

Question 5

Where should I start if my score is below 50%?

Accepted Answer

Start with Tool Layer & Integrations and Evaluation & Testing. These two categories have the highest impact on production reliability and are the most commonly skipped during development. Getting tool failures handled gracefully and establishing a golden dataset are the two changes that most immediately reduce production incidents.

Question 6

Does this checklist apply to RAG systems as well?

Accepted Answer

Yes. RAG-based agents share all the same production requirements. The evaluation and observability categories have additional relevance: citation accuracy and retrieval quality are metrics you should add to your golden dataset and trace output for RAG deployments.

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Ist die Checkliste spezifisch für LangChain oder LangGraph?

Wo soll ich anfangen, wenn mein Score unter 50% liegt?

Gilt diese Checkliste auch für RAG-Systeme?

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