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Queued Agents Start Over cover: a dark cover with two horizontal timeline tracks, Attempt 1 running through three emerald blocks labelled Step 1, Step 2 and Step 3 before a muted-red slash labelled killed cuts it off, and a grey arrow looping back down to Attempt 2, which begins again from a single dim grey Step 1 block with the rest of its track empty

October 31, 2026 Your Queued Laravel Agent Starts Over When the Worker Dies The Laravel AI SDK queues your agent as a job with no timeout, persists nothing until the run returns, and keeps its only crash-safe tool handling for approvals. Measured with a worker killed mid-run, then fixed with a tool ledger, a step checkpoint, and a job you own.

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Model Routing cover: a dark cover with a vertical ladder of five code chips in resolution order, model colon, model parens, hash bracket Model, hash bracket UseCheapest and default, with all of them struck through in grey except hash bracket Model which glows emerald as the winner, and a muted red X labelled failover beside it

September 18, 2026 Your Laravel Agent Is Not Running the Model You Pinned Model selection in the Laravel AI SDK is a precedence chain with five inputs and no diagnostics. #[Model] kills #[UseCheapestModel], a failover array throws away the model id you wrote at the call site, and the SDK's own test assertion reads a model the request never used.

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Context Hygiene cover: a dark cover with five columns of stacked message blocks labelled Turn 1 to Turn 5, the same tall emerald block repeated identically in turns 2, 3 and 4, and collapsed to a thin emerald line in turn 5, illustrating a tool result re-sent on every turn until it is stubbed

September 14, 2026 Your Laravel Agent Re-Sends Every Tool Result It Ever Saw RemembersConversations replays every stored tool result on every turn, up to a 100-row cap the docs never mention. Measured over ten turns on a real agent, with the three levers that cut it and the one that loses your evidence.

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Agent Cost Math cover: a dark cover with three columns of stacked emerald context blocks labelled Step 1, 2 and 3, each column repeating the blocks of the one before it, and step 3 topped by one tall muted-red block that towers over the rest, illustrating one step being 87% of a Laravel AI agent run

September 12, 2026 Your Laravel AI Agent Costs 5× the Estimate. One Step Is 87% of It. The loop re-sends everything every step, the SDK's total hides which step ate the budget, and caching the history made it worse. Measured on a real Laravel agent.

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Observing RAG in Laravel — a dark observability line chart of answer relevance over time, the emerald line drifting steadily downward and crossing below a dashed emerald relevance threshold where it turns red, illustrating retrieval quality quietly degrading in production

July 1, 2026 Observing RAG in Laravel: Your Retrieval Is Getting Worse and Nothing Throws Your Laravel RAG answers 200 OK while retrieval quietly degrades. Here's how to trace retrieval quality, token cost, and faithfulness on live traffic, built from a decorator, a table, and the AI SDK's own middleware. No vendor SDK.

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