Glossary

Canary Rollout

Gradual traffic routing to a new agent version, starting at 1-5% of real traffic with hard spend caps and automated error-rate gates. If error rate or cost per request stays within tolerance, traffic expands in stages; if not, the rollout reverts immediately.

Canary gates are usually automated: if error rate or cost per request breaches a threshold, the system rolls back within minutes rather than waiting for a human to notice.