Topic
Agents
What an in-app agent is, what it can finish, and where it stops.
39 posts
- Does your agent work eight times out of eight?Average accuracy is the wrong number for a product. Run the same task eight times and count how often it worked every single time.Safety11 min
- Generative UI on native mobile: how an agent draws real product UIGenerative UI on the web streams React components. On iOS and Android it has to become a typed spec over a fixed native catalogue. Here is why, and how it works.Render spec15 min
- Prompt injection when the agent can spend moneyIn a consumer app the untrusted text is your own user's data and the tools move their money, which makes filtering useless and structure the only real defence.Safety10 min
- What an in-app AI agent actually is, and what it can touchThree different things get called an AI agent in a mobile app. Here is the one that lives inside your product and acts through your own backend.Agent basics11 min
- When not to put an AI agent in your appFour situations where an in-app agent loses to the interface you already have, and the test to run before you commit a quarter to building one.Agent basics10 min
- Which agent actions deserve Face ID, and which do notBiometric-gating everything trains users to approve without reading. Tier agent actions by what they can destroy, and let the platform decide how.Safety10 min
- Letting users reorder by voice in three tool callsRepeat purchase is the cheapest first agent feature to ship. Three tools carry it, only one of them writes, and a confirm card sits between the second and the third.Agent basics6 min
- Agent or chatbot: telling the two apart before you buyA support bot answers questions. An in-app agent finishes the task. Five questions that separate them in any vendor demo, and where a chatbot still wins.Agent basics10 min
- Designing a tool surface an agent can actually useTwo independent vendors put the practical ceiling near twenty tools. Everything else about tool design follows from the model reading your schema and nothing else.Tools and MCP9 min
- How to add an AI agent to a mobile app: the complete guideWhat an in-app agent is made of, what each of its five pieces costs to own, and the honest path from a first spoken turn to something you can hand to users.Business12 min
- In-app search when the query is a whole sentenceHow search inside an app breaks when people speak in sentences, and how to build the search tool an agent can actually call.Render spec7 min
- Agent runtimes for mobile apps: an honest comparison (2026)OpenAI Realtime, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, Vapi and Retell compared on what a mobile team actually chooses between: layer coverage, client SDKs and the write path.Business8 min
- Designing an agent conversation people can actually useThe seven decisions that make or break a conversational feature: discoverability, endpointing, barge-in, errors, confirmation, latency and the visual answer.Voice11 min
- How to evaluate dialect coverage in a speech stackA vendor language list is a claim about a corpus, not about your users. The method for measuring what a speech model does on the varieties they actually speak.Language9 min
- How fast does a voice agent have to be? A latency playbookWhere a spoken turn's milliseconds go, what the turn-taking research actually measured, and which tactics shorten which segment of the budget.Voice9 min
- Adding an AI agent to a React Native appThe real integration: five calls across the bridge, what your JavaScript owns, what the native side draws, and the week-two work nobody puts in a quickstart.Integration9 min
- Security and privacy for an agent that can act on your dataThe threat model for an in-app agent is its tool set, not its microphone. The OWASP entries that apply, the injection path, and the controls worth building first.Safety9 min
- Adding an AI agent to a Flutter app, and what GenUI gives youThe platform-channel integration, and an honest comparison with Flutter's own GenUI SDK: what the alpha covers, what production needs, and which to pick.Integration8 min
- An agent in a healthcare app: booking, refills, and the stop lineThe three patient-facing tasks an in-app agent does well, the escalation line that belongs in code, and the compliance question to settle before any of it.Business9 min
- In-app agents that finish the task instead of answeringAn assistant that describes where a setting lives competes with your own navigation. One that completes the request does not. What changed, and what to build.Agent basics8 min
- Agents in a logistics app: the driver's hands are the constraintHands-free is a legal requirement in a cab, not a convenience. What a logistics agent should do, how proof of delivery works spoken, and the offline case.Business8 min
- What an in-app agent SDK actually doesThe boundary between an agent SDK and your app, the five phases of a turn and what breaks in each, and why the write path is the part that decides the project.Agent basics8 min
- Shipping UI without a release: the case for server-driven UIWhy mobile teams move layout decisions to the server, what it costs in versioning and coupling, and what changes when an agent is the thing choosing the shape.Render spec8 min
- Agents in a travel app: rebooking is the feature worth buildingBooking is already a form. The task an agent is uniquely good at is rebooking under disruption, and it needs four read tools before it can answer anything.Business8 min
- The architecture of an in-app agent, for people who approve itEvery box in the system, who owns it, where the trust boundaries sit, and what changed between the intent-classification era and the one where a model chooses.Tools and MCP9 min
- Deflection is the wrong number: measure whether the task finishedA deflection rate scores a user who gave up the same as one who was helped. What Gartner's own self-service figures show, and what to count instead.Business9 min
- The business case for an in-app agent, and its missing numberHow to build an ROI model for an in-app agent when the one input that decides the answer has no public benchmark, and which of the levers you can honestly measure.Business8 min
- Build vs buy: what an in-app agent really costs to ownWiring a speech API to a model takes an afternoon. The nine workstreams that turn it into something you can hand to a user do not have an end date.Business10 min
- How far you actually get in a day with an in-app agentA working spoken turn takes an afternoon. This is what those hours buy, what week two costs, and why the integration is not on the critical path at all.Integration9 min
- Agents in a shopping app: reorder, track, returnThe three retail tasks worth giving an agent, why reorder is first, and how to check whether your catalogue supports the case at all.Agent basics7 min
- Why pre-LLM assistants failed, and what changedAssistants before 2023 broke at the layer that turned words into actions. Three things replaced it: open intent, named tool calls, and a loop that checks first.Agent basics10 min
- Voice is an alternative input path, not a speed featureThe case for a spoken path into your app, argued from the curb-cut effect, WCAG 2.2 and what screen reader users actually report.Voice7 min
- Voice or chat: picking the mode for the taskSpeaking and typing are two inputs to the same agent. The situation the user is in decides which one wins, and four of those situations are predictable.Agent basics9 min
- The metrics that tell you an in-app agent worksSeven numbers worth tracking, what each one hides, and why containment is the one that looks best while telling you least about the feature.Business9 min
- Using an agent to get a user to first valueOnboarding leaks where people have to type. An agent can collapse setup into one request, and there are four kinds of friction it genuinely cannot touch.Business8 min
- When voice actually works in an app, and when it doesn'tAn honest framework for deciding which tasks belong to a spoken path, which belong to text, and which should stay on the screen.Agent basics8 min
- Conversational interfaces and older users: the real tensionWhy asking for a task costs older users less than navigating to it, and why the same people are least likely to have tried an AI product.Voice8 min
- What a checkout screen costs, and what the research measuresThe checkout abandonment numbers everyone quotes, what they were actually measured on, and which reasons a redesign can move.Business8 min
- What typing on a phone actually costs your appPeople type about 36 words a minute on a phone. Here is what the research measures, what it does not, and why the fix is removing the form.Business8 min