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We asked the internet what agent failure mode we were missing. It shipped 24 hours later.
- Yesterday our launch thread ended with a genuine question: what's the sixth killer we're missing?
- We'd been writing about the five we keep hitting in production agents — wall-clock death at step 41, silent API truncation ("success" with 10 of 60 results), JSON cut mid-string by max_tokens, the double-charge after a timeout, and context death by a thousand tokens.
- One reply stopped us cold.
- It came from someone who clearly runs agents against real work, and it was one line: "the failure mode is partial success with a confident summary" Read that again, because it's nastier than the other five…
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