AI agent execution: implementation checklist
Find the implementation for provider credential isolation, approvals, shared impact limits, idempotency, recovery, halt and action versioning.
Anlyon executes named actions on your agent’s behalf. Start with a hosted action in a test environment, then add controls for the operation’s consequences. This map connects common implementation questions to the precise contract.
Choose the execution path
| Path | Credential and execution location | Outcome evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Local approval gate | Your process | Approval decision only |
| Hosted template action | Anlyon | HTTP response or unknown outcome |
| Governed effect | Anlyon, for an action with an adapter or a declaration | A receipt grade, with provider, manual or unverified evidence labelled as such |
Three adapters exist: Stripe refunds, updates to one existing GitHub text file, and Resend email sends. Any other HTTPS API can be governed as a declared action. A limit and a grade apply to an action with an adapter or a declaration. The beta policy describes availability limits.
Match the control to the question
| Question | Implementation | Boundary to preserve |
|---|---|---|
| Can the agent refund without a provider key? | Quickstart, secrets | The runtime still has an Anlyon key. Remove direct provider credentials |
| How do I prevent credential misuse after prompt injection? | Authentication, policies | Allowed actions can still be misused. This is not injection detection |
| How do refunds, deploys or emails wait for a person? | Approvals | Local gates and hosted actions enforce different boundaries |
| How do all agents share a refund or mutation cap? | Impact limits | Governed actions within one environment |
| What if a tool call times out after the write? | Idempotency, outcomes | Unknown does not mean failed. Template and governed recovery differ |
| How do I stop new external calls? | Environment halt | Already accepted external requests are not recalled |
| How do I keep staging away from production? | Environment scoping | Anlyon row isolation does not separate an external provider account for you |
| How do I keep the approved target and version unchanged? | Previews, version pinning | Preview binding and provider freshness are different guarantees |
| What proves a write happened? | Governed-effect evidence | A template 2xx is not provider verification |
| How do I integrate my framework? | LangGraph, SDKs, examples | Resume state is not reviewer authentication |
| How do Claude Code and Cursor use hosted actions? | Claude Code, Cursor | Keep administrative permissions and provider keys outside the coding agent |
| Can the records support oversight reviews? | Compliance, analytics | Technical controls do not establish legal compliance |
Verify the failure paths
In a non-production environment, exercise a denied approval, expired preview, revoked requester, halted environment, duplicate request and unknown provider outcome. Check the stored invocation or effect as well as the response the agent received. A successful example only verifies the path that ran.
For architectural evaluation, see execution versus authorization and tool selection. For the first call, use the quickstart.