Failure Modes: Why Agents Break
MASFT (Berkeley, 2025) catalogs 14 multi-agent failure modes in 3 categories. Microsoft's Taxonomy documents how existing AI failures amplify in agentic settings. Industry field data converges on five recurring modes: hallucinated actions, scope creep, cascading errors, context loss, tool misuse.
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