Lesson 7: Deploy responsibly

Agentic RAG raises real challenges in transparency, accountability, and trust. Multi-agent collaboration makes it hard to attribute an error to a specific agent, and autonomous tool use raises safety concerns. Responsible deployment therefore requires governance mechanisms, human oversight, and clear operational boundaries. The survey argues that explainability, traceability, and auditability must be first-class design goals, especially for high-stakes applications. This echoes the governance theme from the agentic memory topic (the SSGM framework) and the production-engineering caution from the multi-agent topic.