Hook: Stop Agentic Mistakes That Cost Money and Trust
Agentic assistants—AI agents that act on behalf of users—are no longer research demos. By 2026 many platforms (including major consumer players) let assistants place orders, book trips, and make payments. That’s powerful, but it increases your attack surface: accidental double-charges, replayed bookings, lost audit trails, or worse—fraud. This checklist and pattern guide gives developers a compact, practical playbook for securely wiring payments, bookings, and external APIs into agentic flows. Focus: security, idempotency, audit logging, webhook handling, OAuth2, and robust error & retry semantics.
Why this matters in 2026
Agentic features accelerated in 2024–2025 and matured into production-grade capabilities in 2026. Large providers (enterprise chatbots and consumer assistants) expanded
