agents in production
Browser agents hit challenge pages and 429s. A phone-use agent loses its login overnight. A retry loop runs until morning and nobody notices until the invoice arrives.
The Agent Ops Report is an operator's notebook on the part demos skip: IP reputation, browser fingerprints, sessions and cookies, retries and idempotency, sandboxing, traces and replays, cost per task, human checkpoints, and agents that drive real Android phones.
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IP reputation, TLS fingerprints, headless tells, timing and rate. What each signal is, and which fixes are legitimate.
Sessions, retries, idempotency, timeouts, sandboxing, secrets, logs, cost caps, and the steps a human should sign off.
How agents drive a phone through ADB, accessibility trees and screenshots, and why an emulator and a real handset behave differently.
Step logs, screenshots and replays, cost per successful task, and alerts that catch an agent stuck in a loop.
agent infrastructure
Where agents run and how they hold state: browser contexts, sandboxes, sessions and cookies, secrets, retries, and actions that are safe to repeat.
access and anti-bot
Why sites challenge agent traffic, what IP reputation and fingerprints give away, and the legitimate routes in: official APIs, allowlisting, polite rates and cleaner IPs.
observability and cost
Traces, step logs and replays that show what an agent actually did, plus cost per task and alerts that fire before a loop eats the budget.
phone-use agents
Agents that operate Android phones through ADB, accessibility services and screenshots, and the gap between an emulator and a real handset on a carrier network.
who writes this
The Agent Ops Report is written by the team that runs Singapore Mobile Proxy and cloudf.one. We operate real mobile IPs on SingTel, StarHub and M1 SIMs, and real Android phones on dedicated hardware, in production. The problems on this site are the ones that land on our desk.
Both products are in Singapore. That suits agents whose tasks don't depend on a country, or that work in Southeast Asia. If your agent needs a US IP, neither is the right fit, and the articles say so. Links to our own products are marked sponsored; the disclosure has the details.
We write about agents doing legitimate work: acting for a user who asked them to, testing your own sites and apps, research within a site's terms, automating accounts you own. You won't find CAPTCHA-solving or ban-evasion playbooks here.