ReliabilityAgent demos are easy; dependable handoffs are the hard part
The agent desk tracks whether autonomous systems can plan, recover from errors, ask for approval, and leave a usable audit trail instead of only showing a successful demo path.
Evals, permission boundaries, rollback behavior, and human-in-the-loop controls.Coding agentsSoftware agents are becoming the proving ground
Coding work has tests, diffs, repositories, and review loops, so it exposes agent quality faster than vague productivity demos.
Benchmark movement, real repository tasks, security reviews, and IDE/cloud integration.Browser workComputer-use agents need evidence, not just automation
Browser and desktop agents become useful when they can cite what they saw, avoid untrusted instructions, and stop before sensitive actions.
Tool permissions, prompt-injection defenses, credential handling, and task completion traces.