Agent Engineering
5 Patterns of Agent Deadlocks
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Five Failure Modes
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Takeaway
Takeaway Agents are not infallible — they have 5 typical failure patterns. Good product design confronts these issues head-on and prepares a response for each: parameter validation, tool verification, loop detection, proactive clarification, and timeout fallbacks.