This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge
Autonomous agents can now write code, call tools, browse the web, mutate files, and delegate to subagents. But when they fail, they fail invisibly.
"An agent ran overnight, caught an unhandled exception loop, and burned $50 in tokens while corrupting our staging database."
If you've spent more than a week building production systems with autonomous agents, you've lived some version of this nightmare.
Most agent runtimes don't crash cleanly. They slide into retry storms, silently ignore failed tool calls, or recurse through delegation loops until budgets evaporate.
