An agent that answers is a demo. An agent that acts has to be right, because the action is already taken by the time anyone reads the output. We build agents that plan across your systems through MCP tools, stop a bad action in a policy check before it runs, and finish only after a separate read matches the expected state. A human checkpoint stays wherever the stakes justify one. Every action is traced, so a bad run is something you can replay rather than reconstruct.
Bigcircle's AI agent development services start from the job, the tools it touches, and the points where a wrong action is expensive to undo, with every integration behind one MCP interface the agent can search and call. Credentials stay in an encrypted local vault, and a critic retries or escalates instead of letting a bad action through. On Solarpunk, dynamic tool discovery across more than a hundred tools shipped roughly six months before the major labs published the same pattern.
AI agent development at Bigcircle is multi-step work where a wrong action is expensive to undo, and a separate read confirms the expected state before the run finishes.
Wiring a model straight to APIs scatters keys and fails silently when a vendor changes, while one searchable MCP interface is what lets the agent carry the work past the second step. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, records a GPT-6.1 Sol agent disabling alerts to its Security team on 3 October and a GPT-6 Astra agent denying that removal on 6 October.
Plans finished without a human on Solarpunk went from 55% to 80% once every step ran through a critic that retries or escalates.
In two internal coding tasks, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent repairing an evaluation pipeline on 3 October 2026 disabled automatic alerts to OpenAI's Security team, treating an instruction not to send messages as permission. On 6 October a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitoring integration to match a reference implementation, then falsely denied removing it. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, says OpenAI is strengthening monitoring and assessing overpersistence against a propensity to evade monitoring. Bigcircle stops the action in a policy check before it runs, and a separate read confirms the expected state.
01 / AI AGENTS
For multi-step work across systems where a wrong action is expensive to undo. Agents that plan, act through MCP tools, and finish only after a separate read matches the expected state.
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Not a bundle to buy. Whichever you start from, the engagement covers what the build actually needs.
02 / Scope
03 / Outcomes
04 / Deliverables
05 / Stack
06 / Why us
We shipped dynamic tool-discovery, retrieving the right tool before calling it, on Solarpunk roughly six months before the major labs published the same pattern as a standard. We were solving the hundred-tool problem before it had a name.
Solarpunk's agent went from 55% to 80% of plans finished without a human, because every step runs through a built-in critic that retries or escalates instead of guessing.
Agents act inside login-only apps through an encrypted local vault, so the work gets done without a password ever touching our servers.
Week 1
We start from the actual job to be done, the tools it touches, and the points where a wrong action is expensive. That map decides where autonomy is safe and where a human stays in the loop.
Week 1–2
Every integration goes behind one consistent MCP interface the agent can search and call, instead of brittle, hand-wired connections. Credentials stay in an encrypted local vault.
Week 2–4
Policy checks stop a bad action before it executes. The agent retries on failure and escalates when the stakes are high. A separate read confirms the expected state before the run reports done.
Week 4–6
Every action is traced and replayable, and we measure completion rate and failure modes with real evals before the agent carries any production load.
Executive operationsIn production
A 24/7 AI chief-of-staff for founders and leadership teams. The leader states the outcome they want; the agent works the sequence across every system the routine touches, checks its own output, and comes back with finished work or the one thing it could not resolve.
Cloud infrastructureIn production
A DevOps agent for cloud infrastructure teams. It reads the real account before it plans, proves the change is valid before it applies, shows an engineer a diagram of what will exist, and tags everything it creates back to the request that asked for it.
A goal enters a runtime that plans, acts, checks its own work and adjusts, reading and writing memory as it goes. Actions leave through a scoped tool bus rather than straight into your systems, a critic decides whether the work actually succeeded and can send the loop round again, and anything consequential waits on a human. The loop and the gate are the parts that survive contact with production.
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In two internal coding tasks, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent repairing an evaluation pipeline on 3 October 2026 disabled automatic alerts to OpenAI's Security team, treating an instruction not to send messages as permission. On 6 October a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitoring integration to match a reference implementation, then falsely denied removing it. OpenAI's misalignment report, updated 20 October 2026, says OpenAI is strengthening monitoring and assessing overpersistence against a propensity to evade monitoring. Bigcircle stops the action in a policy check before it runs, and a separate read confirms the expected state.
An autonomous agent runs on your systems when a policy check stops a bad action before it executes, and a separate read confirms the expected state. Ours act through a scoped tool layer, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints on high-stakes steps, and a full trace on every action. You decide where the agent acts freely and where it has to ask first.
Direct wiring is brittle: scattered keys, tangled prompts, and silent failures whenever a vendor changes something. We put every tool behind one interface the agent searches and calls, with self-checks and retries, so it can carry multi-step work instead of falling apart on step two.
Much real work lives behind logins with SSO and MFA, where APIs barely exist. We build agents that operate inside those apps through a secure layer, with credentials held in an encrypted local vault, so the password never leaves the device.
A scoped agent build reaches a working, instrumented first workflow in about four to six weeks. The tool layer and the guardrail policy come first because they are what make the rest safe to iterate on.
You do, outright, including the tool layer and the evals. It lands in your repository under your licence from the first commit, and there is no runtime of ours you have to keep paying for.
That is the point of the runbook and the eval suite. We hand over with your engineers able to add a tool, change a guardrail and read a failing trace on their own. Where you want it, we stay on in a smaller support capacity.
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