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Canary Deployment (Agent)

Reviewed 19 July 2026 Canonical definition Part of: Agent Reliability & Deployment Terms →

A canary deployment for AI agents gradually routes increasing proportions of production traffic to a new agent version while monitoring quality and error metrics. It limits the blast radius of a bad release to a small user fraction while providing real performance data from production.

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What is Canary Deployment (Agent)?

A canary deployment for AI agents gradually routes increasing proportions of production traffic to a new agent version while monitoring quality and error metrics.

How is Canary Deployment (Agent) used in production?

It limits the blast radius of a bad release to a small user fraction while providing real performance data from production.

Which terms are related to Canary Deployment (Agent)?

Closely related concepts include Shadow Testing (Agent), Agent CI/CD, Blue-Green Deployment (Agent), Environment Promotion (Agent). Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.

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