# quynh.ai

> Personal site of Quynh, an agentic founder writing about AI agents, the control planes that govern them, and what she's building. The flagship content is a 13-chapter knowledgebase covering what AI agents are, their risks, and how enterprises adopt them.

Every chapter is also available as raw markdown at `/raw/agents/<slug>.md`. For one-shot ingestion of the whole knowledgebase, fetch `/llms-full.txt`.

## AI agents knowledgebase — foundations

- [What is an AI agent](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/01-what-is-an-agent.md): Definition, components, how agents differ from LLM calls and chatbots.
- [Anatomy of an agent](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/02-anatomy.md): The model, instructions, tools, memory, and loop that make up an agent.
- [Frameworks, harnesses, and platforms](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/03-frameworks-and-platforms.md): How orchestration libraries, coding harnesses, and managed platforms fit together.
- [Where agents live](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/04-where-agents-live.md): Runtime surfaces — chat UIs, IDEs, browsers, terminals, background workers.

## AI agents knowledgebase — risks and controls

- [Risks](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/05-risks.md): Prompt injection, data exfil, runaway cost, shadow AI, with real-world case studies.
- [Controls](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/06-controls.md): The control plane that governs agent behaviour in production.
- [Identity](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/07-identity.md): How agents authenticate, act on behalf of humans, and get authorised to use tools.
- [Observability](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/08-observability.md): Tracing, logging, and evaluating agent runs.

## AI agents knowledgebase — operations

- [Integration and deployment](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/09-integration-and-deployment.md): Connecting agents to existing systems and shipping them safely.
- [Lifecycle](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/10-lifecycle.md): The five-phase lifecycle of an agent from build to retire.
- [Competitive landscape](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/11-landscape.md): Who's building what in the agent tooling ecosystem.
- [Procurement](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/12-procurement.md): How enterprises buy agents and what they evaluate.
- [Regulation](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/13-regulation.md): The regulatory landscape for AI agents.

## References

- [The agent ecosystem](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/ecosystem.md): Map of vendors, frameworks, and platforms.
- [Example agents](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/examples.md): Concrete agents shipped by real companies.
- [Glossary](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/glossary.md): Definitions for the vocabulary used throughout the knowledgebase.
- [Resources](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/resources.md): Further reading.

## Journal

- [Journal index](https://quynh.ai/journal): Notes from the early weeks of trying to build a company. Written messy on purpose.

## Optional

- [Full knowledgebase, single file](https://quynh.ai/llms-full.txt): All chapters concatenated for one-shot LLM ingestion.
- [Raw markdown index](https://quynh.ai/raw/agents/index.md): Machine-readable listing of every chapter's raw URL.