Notes from the mint.
Practical writing about the environments, controls, and evidence that make integration work safe to delegate.
Your agent finished the code. It is still waiting for a human to finish the provider setup. The bottleneck is not the model. It is the environment.
Read article →Shared staging and local mocks hide failures in scopes, signatures, callbacks, and provider policy.
Evidence-backed provisioning across five vendorsAutomation is trustworthy when every ordered step carries a status, artifact, duration, and next action.
One-way ejection: custody made explicitCustomer ownership deserves a hard technical boundary, not a promise hidden in account copy.
Credits, limits, and the economics of delegationUsage-based capacity makes more sense than seats when humans, agents, and CI all create environments.