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We took inspiration from Terraform: agent definitions should live in version control and move through the same review and deployment process as the rest of the product. An agent’s instructions, model, tools, and environment are declared in code, and our deployment pipeline registers changes with Laminar.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, 
Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.
Coding agents can use that environment too, running sessions against the live system to validate their changes.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.
Laminar adopts the concept of deferred tools: most of the tools are hidden behind a tool with a way for product teams to choose which tools they don’t want to defer.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.
Many Inspect sessions never need a sandbox at all, and a support agent can answer plenty of questions before it has any reason to run code or process a file.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.
Early on we realized that none of the existing tracing solutions are 100% matching what we want to see and code is cheap, so we’ve build a custom admin panel that evolved in a full solution.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.
We’ve found that skills help to establish a more consistent baseline of performance for how well agents use tools.
Sam KronickAuthor of Ramp's "Building Laminar" engineering blog post · Practitioner, Ramp
Post: Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform, Ramp Builders blog, October 20, 2026.