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Screenshot of environments The Context Company supports multiple environments to fit your development workflow, from local debugging to production monitoring.

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Production (Cloud-Hosted)

The production environment provides full-featured observability for your live AI agents. Monitor real user interactions, detect silent failures at scale, and get alerts when issues arise. Production features include:
  • Detailed traces: Understand every agent run’s execution flow, reasoning steps, and tool calls
  • Silent failure detection: Automatic detection of hallucinations, bad tool calls, infinite loops, and user frustration
  • Search, filter, and sort: Query across all agent runs, steps, and tool calls with custom metadata filtering
  • User feedback collection: Capture thumbs up/down ratings and text feedback from end users
  • Agent sessions: Group related runs into sessions to track full user conversations
  • Aggregate metrics: Dashboard views of latency, costs, token usage, success rates, and failure trends
  • Alerts and reports: Real-time notifications for failure spikes and weekly trend digests

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Development (Cloud-Hosted)

Every user gets a private, cloud-hosted development environment for staging and debugging. Test your integrations and explore traces before shipping to production. To use dev mode:
  1. Set the TCC_API_KEY environment variable to your user-level API key (begins with dev_)
  2. Switch to the development environment in the dashboard
Development environments are isolated. Your staging data never mixes with production.

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Local Mode (Next.js + AI SDK)

Local mode provides a local-first development experience for rapid iteration. Run The Context Company directly within your Next.js app. No cloud connection required. Local mode is ideal for:
  • Offline development and debugging
  • Fast iteration on agent logic
  • Inspecting traces in real-time during development