The Outer Loop, Insights First: An Ambient Quality Agent That Diagnoses Your Production Agent- Google Developers Blog
Oct 8, 2026Dima Melnyk, Elia Secchi

Summary
This post introduces AQuA (Ambient Quality Agent), an unattended system for monitoring and diagnosing production agent failures. AQuA sweeps production trajectories, grades sessions against a checklist of common breakdowns, clusters findings into issue clusters, verifies these clusters, and tracks them as new or recurring issues. It provides root-cause analysis by comparing failing trajectories with deployed source snapshots, citing specific code locations or external dependencies. AQuA is released as open-source building blocks for integration into existing projects and stacks.
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