A pre-launch checklist talk: structured as the five things you must verify before any agent goes to production, in the order you should check them. More prescriptive and less narrative than Agents Gone Wild — built for teams who are about to ship and want a final-mile review.

AUDIENCE
Teams in the final stages of shipping their first or second production agent. Practical, checklist-driven audience.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
• Walk away with a literal pre-launch checklist (provided as a takeaway doc)
• Understand the cost, safety, and grounding checks specific to agentic systems
• See how to wire these checks into CI/CD using Azure AI Foundry evaluation gates