We audited 8 AI-built apps for production. The frontend was fine, the trust boundary wasn't.

We built a free agent skill called ship-ready — it reads an AI-built app and writes a file-cited plan for what's missing before real users hit it. Then we pointed it at 8 real apps built by AI tools (Lovable/Bolt/Cursor-class): five web apps, three mobile. Dashboards, an invoicing app, an AI email tool, a multiplayer whiteboard, a recipe site.

The results were remarkably consistent, and not in the way you'd guess. The design was good. The data layer was usually right. The thing that was broken — over and over — was the boundary between the browser and the backend.

Here's what showed up across all 8.

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