Designing agentic systems that do not fall over
Multi-agent setups multiply both capability and failure modes. How I keep them reliable in production.
Every agent you add is another place the system can drift, loop, or stall. Capability scales with the number of agents, and so does the surface area for failure. The job is to keep the second curve flatter than the first.
Bound every loop
Hard limits on steps, tool calls, and time are not optional. An agent without a budget is a bill and an outage waiting to happen.
Make state inspectable
If you cannot replay what an agent did and why, you cannot debug it. Log the plan, the tool inputs, and the decisions, then treat that trace as a first-class part of the product.
Written by Ansh Roshan
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