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Foundations
- Is the agent loop explicit, with a hard iteration cap and a guaranteed result per tool call? (Ch 2)
- Are app servers stateless, with all durable state in shared stores? (Ch 16)
- Is the provider abstraction in place, so swapping/adding a model is additive? (Ch 4)
- Is there a model registry that validates client-supplied model ids? (Ch 4)