From Beta to v1: The Contract Invariant Must Earn
What Invariant already guarantees in Beta, what still blocks v1, and the evidence required before the project can make a stable compatibility promise.
In-depth engineering notes on building reliable AI agents: durable memory, deterministic runtimes, event sourcing, and execution authority.
Why the fundamental missing boundary in production AI is not orchestration syntax, but the structural separation between probabilistic reasoning and authoritative execution.
José Vásquez
Founder & Lead Engineer @ Invariant
What Invariant already guarantees in Beta, what still blocks v1, and the evidence required before the project can make a stable compatibility promise.
Prompt chains, graph wrappers, and simple while loops solve orchestration syntax, but fail at real-world systems engineering.
LLMs reason over working context, but durable memory, idempotency, and state persistence belong in deterministic infrastructure.
Probabilistic models are great for reasoning, but terrible at execution. Here is why infrastructure must enforce the execution boundary.
Building software for models, the reality of independent engineering, and why Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) provides the right balance for Invariant.