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title: "Agent reliability engineering: definition | Chainfore"
url: https://chainfore.com/glossary/agent-reliability-engineering
updated: 2026-10-22
summary: "The practice of bounding, verifying, recovering and measuring AI agents that act inside enterprise systems, so that autonomy is expanded on evidence."
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Glossary

# Agent reliability engineering

The practice of bounding, verifying, recovering and measuring AI agents that act inside enterprise systems, so that autonomy is expanded on evidence.

## Example

Chainfore applies it in five stages, Define, Bound, Engineer, Verify and Operate, with acceptance criteria agreed before the build.

## Related terms

- 01 Bounded workflow: A business process in which the data an agent may read, the tools it may call and the actions needing approval are defined in code before the agent runs.

- 02 Read-back verification: After an agent writes to a system of record, reading the record back to confirm the intended change exists exactly once.

- 03 Staged autonomy: Granting an agent authority in four stages: offline, shadow, supervised, limited; each expansion requires owner approval and new evidence.