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Canary Deployment (AI Agent)

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

A canary deployment for AI agents is a release strategy in which a new agent version is rolled out to a small subset of traffic or users before wider deployment. It allows teams to observe the new version's behaviour, quality, and cost in production with limited blast radius. Governance platforms should automatically compare the canary's policy compliance, output quality, and resource consumption against the baseline before approving full rollout.