The Stack Gets Stateless | The Agentic Stack

You’ve built agents that can do amazing things. But can they survive production—load, audits, routing, cost pressure, and real users?

In this episode of The Agentic Stack, Mouli Sri breaks down five signals that show agentic AI is moving from clever demos to operational infrastructure for regulated industries like FinTech, InsurTech, and mortgage.

You’ll learn:

• Why adding more agents can actually make your system slower and more expensive (the “interaction tax”)
• How LangGraph is quietly becoming a go‑to framework for durable, stateful agent workflows
• What changed in the new MCP 2026‑07‑28 spec and why it matters for enterprise deployments
• Why “cost per token” is the only infrastructure metric that really matters for agentic AI
• The governance checklist you need before letting agents touch customer decisions, policy wording, or credit paths

Plus: real architect’s notes from building agentic systems in financial services, and concrete examples from underwriting and insurance advisory workflows.

If you’re designing agent systems that must survive production, this episode gives you the spine of what to optimize—and what to avoid.