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AI and agent failure mode catalog
Catalog the ways your agent fails — loops, hallucinated tools, scope creep — so you can mitigate each one.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2failure mode
- 3loop
- 4hallucination
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Section 1
The premise
Every agent has recurring failure modes. Naming them turns 'it broke again' into a bug list you can actually close.
What AI does well here
- Categorize past failures from logs.
- Propose a one-line mitigation per mode.
- Suggest tests that reproduce each.
What AI cannot do
- Eliminate emergent behavior.
- Predict every new failure mode after a model swap.
- Replace ongoing monitoring.
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