Post-Mortem Structure for Autonomous Agent Incidents
How to design incident reports for autonomous agents that act in the real world.
Teodora Vásquez
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Failure Modes
8 stories in Failure Modes.
Agent Reliability Patterns From Chaos Engineering
Chaos engineering needs rebuilding to catch agent failures that look correct.
Teodora Vásquez
Non-Determinism in LLM-Driven Agent Pipelines
Non-determinism in agent pipelines compounds across steps, not just at the model level.
Priya Subramaniam
Prompt Injection in Agentic Pipelines
When AI agents can act, prompt injection becomes a multi-step attack chain.
Teodora Vásquez
Tool Misuse Patterns and Agent Guardrails
Agents executing tools need guardrails at the architecture layer, not just the prompt.
Marcus Oyelaran
Runaway Agent Loop Detection and Termination
Detect when agents repeat the same tool calls endlessly, before token budgets vanish.
Priya Subramaniam
Context Drift in Long-Horizon Agent Tasks
Three distinct failure modes compound to derail long-horizon agent tasks.
Priya Subramaniam
Designing Circuit Breakers for Autonomous Agents
Agents fail silently, so one classic breaker can't protect them.
Priya Subramaniam