Failure modes in multi-agent teams: how a crew of agents breaks differently

A single agent fails by getting the task wrong. A team of agents fails in ways no single agent can: correlated collapse, diffused responsibility, context fragmentation, and consensus that converges on nothing. The four failure modes that only exist once you have more than one agent — and why adding agents can lower reliability.

July 21, 2026 · 5 min · 1043 words · Loop & Retry