failure modes

A crashed agent is easy. The hard one returns a confident answer after a tool quietly returned nothing and the model made up the rest. The strong answer instruments the steps that fail without throwing, ties traces to an outcome signal, and refuses to call a 200 a success.

Surface knowledge recites the SOTA model name. Depth names the failure mode that bites you in production and the open problem nobody has cleanly solved. This is how to sound like you've actually shipped in your area.