Why it matters
Most AI teams ship behavior changes to 100% of users on every deploy — no canary, no segment, no kill switch. Web teams stopped doing this in 2012. AI teams are about to learn why. Feature flags are table stakes in software engineering. In agent systems they're almost nonexistent — prompts, tool access, model selection
My takeaway: Agents Need Feature Flags - Sachin Gupta is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.