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The Agent Stack - Now, Next, and After
Agents have moved from hype to production.
04 August 2025

They are closing enterprise contracts, replacing manual workflows, and running at scale in BFSI, logistics, healthcare, and beyond. The stack is no longer speculative, but it is still early, and like every young infrastructure layer, what works today will not be what wins the next decade.

Boundless is mapping the layers, break points, and rewiring moments that will define the agentic AI stack. This series is a  map for building agent companies that last, from what is working in production now, to where the stack is fragile, to the green shoots that will replace it.

Part 1: The Agent Stack That Works Today

From browser automation to planning logic, memory, retrieval, and evaluation,  the layers that are live in production, generating real contracts, and surviving India’s toughest workflows.

Part 2: The Cracks in the Agent Stack

The brittle edges: DOM scraping one API launch away from irrelevance, black-box retrieval, leaky memory, outdated evaluation, and infra economics that don’t scale.

Part 3: Rewiring the Stack

The flip is coming: dual-mode DOM/API agents, RL-trained policy execution, vertical RAG, edge-native inference, and trust layers as a moat.

Why this matters: The agent stack is already generating revenue, but it is still fragile and overfit. The founders who will win the next wave will anticipate the collapse triggers, design for adaptability, and build trust-first infra that enterprises will depend on.

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part 1 : the agent stack that works today

A year ago, most AI agents were demos.

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part 2 : the cracks in the agent stack

The agent stack works.

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part 3 : rewiring the stack

The agent stack works in production today,

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