# 🚧 Technical Limitations & Market Positioning

While the **AgentOps Cockpit** is a powerful "Mission Control" for AI agents, it is designed for **Development Velocity** and **Governance-as-Code**, not as a replacement for specialized enterprise engineering suites.

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## ⚖️ Comparison & Positioning

### 1. Load Testing vs. Enterprise Tools (JMeter/Locust)
**Is this a replacement?** ❌ No.

| Feature | Cockpit Load Test | JMeter / Locust.io |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Scale** | Local (capped by machine/network) | Distributed (1M+ concurrent users) |
| **Complexity** | Simple GET "Pings" | Multi-step user scripts (Login -> Search -> Pay) |
| **Protocols** | HTTP GET/POST | Websockets, gRPC, JDBC, MQTT, etc. |
| **Analysis** | Summary Table (p90, Avg) | Real-time graphs, APM integration, Heatmaps |

**Best Use Case**: A "Safe-Build" sanity check to ensure your Cloud Run/GKE instance doesn't have immediate concurrency bottlenecks before pushing to production.

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### 2. Architecture Review vs. Static Analysis (Snyk/SonarQube)
**Is this a replacement?** ❌ No.

*   **Logic**: The Cockpit uses **Deep AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) Analysis** and heuristic scanning to detect architectural patterns and vulnerabilities.
*   **Capabilities**: It performs structural analysis to identify entry points, PII scrubbers, and hardcoded secrets with higher precision than simple regex.
*   **Best Use Case**: Verifying high-level alignment with the **Google Well-Architected Framework** and ensuring safe-build hygiene.

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### 3. Red Team vs. Penetration Testing
**Is this a replacement?** ❌ No.

*   **Logic**: Uses a curated set of historical adversarial prompts (Injection, Jailbreaking).
*   **Limitation**: It lacks the creative pivot capabilities of a human penetration tester or a heavy-duty "Red Team LLM" attacker.
*   **Best Use Case**: Automated safety regression testing to ensure new code hasn't re-introduced known PII leakage or jailbreak paths.

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## 🛠️ Summary of Limitations

1.  **Framework Dependencies**: Heuristics are currently optimized for Python (ADK, LangChain, CrewAI) and React/TypeScript. Go and Java support are in the roadmap but primitive.
2.  **Environment Visibility**: The Cockpit audits the *code* and *project structure*. It cannot see your live Google Cloud Console configurations (e.g., if a VPC firewall is actually open or closed).
3.  **Local Context**: It assumes access to the local filesystem. Remote repository auditing requires a `git clone` first.

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**Verdict**: Use the Cockpit to **Standardize and Accelerate** your Day 2 operations. Use specialized enterprise tools for **Deep Engineering Validation**.
