Engineering

Inside the Cortiq agent runtime

Sandboxed tools, scoped credentials and deterministic retries. A look at how runs stay safe and repeatable.

Noah Fischer

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9 min read

An agent is only as trustworthy as the system it runs in. Here is how we built ours.

Scoped credentials

Each agent gets its own short-lived token with the minimum permissions it needs. Revoke it and the agent stops instantly.

Deterministic steps

Plans are written down before execution, so a retry follows the same path instead of improvising.

Observability by default

Every tool call is traced with timing, inputs and outputs. You can replay any run step by step.

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