AI Agents · Advanced · about 16 minutes

Agent failure modes — how they go wrong and what catches each

Your research agent produced a brief that turned out to be about a different company with a similar name. You spend an afternoon rewriting the prompt. The actual fix was a stopping condition: stop and ask when the name matches more than one entity.

You need

Goal: produce a sourced brief on supplier 'Shakti Industries'. Tools: web fetch (allowlisted), MCA lookup.

Tool

The execution trace

You get

1. FAILURE MODE — wrong entity.

Time saved

Diagnosing structurally rather than by rewording typically turns a repeated multi-hour cycle into a single ten-minute fix.