Agent Failure Modes and Recovery (ANSWERED)
Medium AI Agents interview question on agent failure modes and recovery — architecture, trade-offs, eval, and production patterns.
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Failures include tool timeouts, schema mismatches, hallucinated tool args, and context overflow. Recover with retries, structured errors to the model, checkpoint resume, and graceful human handoff.
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Explain agent failure modes and recovery. How would you apply this when building production AI agents? Cover architecture, safety, and evaluation.
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