OptScale AI Blog

Guides and field notes on governing AI across your company — routing and gateways, security and guardrails, agent control, data sovereignty, and cost.

AI Agent Governance

July 28, 2026

~ 9 min

AI Agent Observability: Catching Loops, Drift & Recursion

An agent stuck in a loop doesn't crash. It returns 200s and quietly burns budget until someone opens the billing dashboard. Three named failure patterns, the four metrics that catch them, and where AI agent observability stops, and enforcement has to start.

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AI Agent Governance

July 28, 2026

~ 9 min

AI Agent Observability: Catching Loops, Drift & Recursion

An agent stuck in a loop doesn't crash. It returns 200s and quietly burns budget until someone opens the billing dashboard. Three named failure patterns, the four metrics that catch them, and where AI agent observability stops, and enforcement has to start.

AI Observability

July 30, 2026

~ 7 min

Shadow AI Agents & the AI Agent Governance Gap

Shadow AI agents are already in production – built by product teams, embedded by vendors, deciding at runtime. Here's why your existing controls miss them, and where governance starts.