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The Middleware Gap in AI Agent Frameworks

calendar_today June 8, 2026 person Ninaad Rao domain dzone

Most AI Agent frameworks treat the model as a black box: you register tools, the model picks one, the tool runs, and the cycle repeats. This pattern is perfect for demos, but for a production system, it requires more complex systems. We need to manage context windows, cache API calls, filter sensitive tools by role, and compact the information history within models to avoid token limits.

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