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Agents2026-08-28 · source-backed
Agent Mesh (arXiv 2608.26225) documents 147 numbered incidents over 81 runs of a production agentic delivery platform, each with a measured cost and mostly a mutation proof. All three assumptions behind retry, timeout and error-rate circuit breaking break in practice: a loop of 54 consecutive successful tool calls that no error-rate breaker can see, a progress signal constant by construction that guarantees a false trip on the third repair round, and 21 events accumulated across six invocations of one delegation that make a correctly idempotent component unwinnable. Twelve incidents were the enforcement layer blocking correct work, the worst costing 107 agent turns and zero accepted writes.
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