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How are you handling silent failures in multi-step agent workflows?
- skhatter 5mo agoWorking on multi-step agent systems (agents calling tools, other agents, APIs), I keep running into a frustrating class of failures: One step returns slightly malformed or incomplete state Downstream steps continue executing anyway The issue only surfaces several steps later Nothing actually “fails” — the system just produces the wrong result. These are hard to catch: Logs/traces help explain what happened after the fact But they don’t prevent bad execution from propagating I’m experimenting with: Explicit state validation between steps Blocking unsafe transitions Replay from intermediate failure points Curious how others are handling this in production. Are you relying purely on tracing/logs, or enforcing stricter contracts between steps? I’m building something in this space and looking for a few design partners to try it out (happy to wire it up myself): https://www.agentsentinelai.com/ https://www.agentsentinelai.com/
- maryjeiel 5mo ago[flagged]