AI agents dont fail because the model is bad. They fail because nobody set up the controls.

The 10 that actually matter:

• Human in the loop

• Approval gates

• Budget limits

• Timeouts

• Confidence thresholds

• Rollback logic

• Audit trails

• Policy rules

• Coordination controls

• Continuous evaluation

Without these, agents drift, costs blow up, trust dies.

With them, you get a real production system instead of a fancy demo.