Most tutorials show you how to define a tool. None of them show you what to do when tool calls fail, loop, or produce unexpected results. Here are the five patterns that make the difference in production.

Every agent failure follows a pattern. Once you know the patterns, you can catch them before they do...

After a 3am production failure cost me $40 in a tool-call loop, I rebuilt my agent pattern around tight job specs, well-designed idempotent tools, and

Most tutorials show you how to define a tool. None of them show you what to do when tool calls fail, loop, or produce unexpected results. Here are the five patterns that make the…