Your microservices have SLOs, error budgets, and circuit breakers. Your AI agents should too. In this post we apply the SRE playbook to autonomous agents: defining safety SLIs that catch behavioral failures your existing monitoring misses, wiring error budgets to agent autonomy so trust is earned and revoked automatically, and running chaos experiments purpose-built for LLM provider outages, reasoning loops, and policy bypasses. Everything described here ships in the open-source agent-sre package.
If you practice SRE, you already have a mental model for running reliable production systems. You define SLOs. You track error budgets. You use circuit breakers to stop cascading failures. You run ch...
Published May 19, 2026
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