skhatter

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How are you handling silent failures in multi-step agent workflows?(agentsentinelai.com)
1 points by skhatter 5mo ago|1 comments
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by skhatter 5mo ago
Working 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 issu
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by skhatter 6mo ago
That makes sense — sounds like a lot of this is handled at the framework + design level in your setup. In practice, when something does go wrong in a multi-step workflow, do you typically rely on tracing + manual debugging, or do you have b
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by skhatter 6mo ago
The “authority boundary” framing is really helpful — tracing explains what happened, but not whether a transition between agents should have been allowed. Curious how teams are handling this today — are those contracts usually defined expli
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by skhatter 6mo ago
This is a great example — feels very similar to classic lost update problems in distributed systems. The propose/validate/commit cycle makes a lot of sense. Curious how you're handling this in practice — are all shared state
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by skhatter 6mo ago
Interesting — are you instrumenting the agent workflows themselves with OpenTelemetry spans? I was wondering how well the standard o11y stack works once agents start running multi-step workflows (agent → tools → other agents → APIs). Tracin
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How are people debugging multi-agent AI workflows in production?(agentsentinelai.com)
1 points by skhatter 6mo ago|10 comments
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by skhatter 6mo ago
I've been experimenting with AI agents and multi-step workflows recently and ran into a problem that reminded me a lot of early distributed systems. Once agents start calling tools, APIs, and other agents in a chain, debugging failures