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Deep Dive AI Workflows

Build an Always-On Personal Agent Workflow with Cloud Continuity & Spend Caps

Gemini Spark dropped from the $99.99 Ultra tier to the $19.99 AI Pro plan on July 25, 2026, making always-on personal agents a consumer product. This workflow builds spark-sleeper, a LangGraph pipeline that runs a personal agent 24/7 on cloud compute: it ingests tasks from any device, wakes on schedule or trigger, executes long-running work with a durable task queue, checks every spend against a hard monthly cap, and reports results back to the user's channel of choice — the Gemini Spark pattern as an open workflow you control.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
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Deep Dive AI Workflows

Build an Agentic Patient-Journey Voice Workflow with Human Escalation Gates

Assort Health raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation in August 2026, expanding from voice AI into an agentic system for the whole patient journey. This workflow builds care-flow, a LangGraph pipeline for healthcare front offices: a voice agent answers inbound calls, triages the request with structured symptom intake, books or reschedules appointments against the practice schedule, and routes anything clinically uncertain through a human escalation gate before any medical decision.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
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Deep Dive AI Workflows

Build an Outbound Voice-Agent Workflow with IVR Navigation & Call Completion Tracking

Google's agentic shopping features now place real calls to stores, and consumer callers like Assindo navigate IVR menus and hold queues. This workflow builds call-runner, a LangGraph pipeline that makes outbound calls for a user: it plans the call from a task brief, dials through Twilio, navigates IVR menus with speech recognition, handles hold queues, executes the script, and logs a completion verdict — done, needs callback, or failed — with a transcript the user can check.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
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Deep Dive AI Tools

Build a Twilio Voice & IVR MCP Server for Agentic Outbound Calls

Outbound voice is a mainstream agent capability in 2026 — Google's shopping agent calls stores and consumer callers navigate IVR menus. This MCP server — twilio-voice-mcp — gives any agent the same capability as governed tools: place outbound calls, speak text with AI disclosure, navigate IVR menus, capture transcripts, and report completion. Built with FastMCP in TypeScript with inputSchema JSON definitions, an mcpServers config, and an OAuth 2.0 / API-key security guide.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
11m read
Deep Dive AI Tools

Build a BenchLM Model-Evaluation MCP Server for Agent Model Selection

The BenchLM August 2026 leaderboard is the deployment guide for agent builders: Claude Mythos 5 tops the composite at 83.2, Qwen3.8 Max leads open weights at 79.9, and MiniMax M3 sits at 68.8. This MCP server — benchlm-mcp — exposes that leaderboard to agents as governed tools: query model scores by benchmark, compare two models, and pick the cheapest model that clears a quality threshold. Built with FastMCP in TypeScript with inputSchema JSON, mcpServers config, and an API-key security guide.

Deepak Bagada Deepak Bagada
11m read
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