Agents & Orchestration

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Agent and orchestration bugs are structural failures in multi-agent or tool-augmented systems, where coordination, role boundaries, execution order, or control flow break down even when the underlying model behaves correctly.

Most agent failures are not caused by model quality. They arise from role mixups, tool schema drift, uncontrolled loops, shared-state collisions, and cold-boot ordering errors. This page maps observable symptoms to structural fixes with measurable acceptance targets.


Orientation: pick your orchestration layer

FrameworkWhat it isTypical useLink
AutogenMulti-agent collaboration patternsDebate, reviewer loops, tool arbitrationautogen.md
CrewAIRole-based project crewsTask pipelines with clear rolescrewai.md
Haystack AgentsRAG-centric agents from deepsetRetrieval-heavy assistantshaystack_agents.md
LangChainLargest ecosystem of tools/memoryRapid prototyping, complex chainslangchain.md
LangGraphGraph execution over LCStateful paths, loops, guardslanggraph.md
LlamaIndexKnowledge-first orchestrationRAG pipelines, index controlllamaindex.md
OpenAI Assistants v2First-party assistants APIFiles, tools, code-interpreteropenai_assistants_v2.md
Rewind AgentsContext replay paradigmsUser-state reconstructionrewind_agents.md
Semantic KernelMS orchestration SDKPlugins, plans, .NET/TS stackssemantic_kernel.md
SmolagentsMinimalistic agent runtimeConstrained envs, fast spin-upsmolagents.md

Core acceptance targets

  • ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45
  • Coverage ≥ 0.70 for the target section
  • λ stays convergent across 3 paraphrases and 2 seeds
  • E_resonance remains flat on long windows

These targets let you ship safely regardless of framework.


Fix Hub — symptoms mapped to structural pages

SymptomLikely causeOpen this
JSON mode breaks, invalid tool objectsTool protocol too looseData Contracts
Agents overwrite each other’s memoryNamespace collision, missing locksPattern: memory-namespace split in patterns
Run loops never endUnbounded cycles, missing guardslogic-collapse.md
High similarity yet wrong snippetMetric/store mismatch or fragmentationembedding-vs-semantic.md
Alternating answers across runsPrompt header reorder, λ flipscontext-drift.md, retrieval-traceability.md
First live call fails after deployCold boot and ordering issuesbootstrap-ordering.md, predeploy-collapse.md
Tool storms and rate limitsMissing backoff and budgetsOps: rate-limit backpressure, timeouts in ops/

Minimal agent contract

  1. Separate memory namespaces
    One namespace per agent. Writes guarded by mem_rev and mem_hash.
  2. Strict tool schemas
    Enforce JSON schemas. Reject free-text arguments and responses.
  3. Path guards
    Max steps, variance clamp, and illegal cross-path suppression.
  4. Traceability first
    Cite then explain. Require {snippet_id, section_id, source_url, offsets, tokens}.
  5. Boot ordering
    Do not accept traffic until index hash, analyzer, and model versions match.
  6. Observability
    Log ΔS and λ across retrieve → rerank → reason. Alert at ΔS ≥ 0.60.

60-second triage

  1. Measure ΔS for question vs retrieved and vs anchor.
  2. Probe λ by varying top-k and prompt headers. If λ flips, clamp variance and lock the schema.
  3. Apply
    Retrieval drift → BBMC + Data Contracts
    Reasoning collapse → BBCR bridge + BBAM
    Dead ends → BBPF alternate paths
  4. Verify
    Coverage ≥ 0.70 on three paraphrases. λ convergent on two seeds.

FAQ

Why do agents step on each other’s memory?
Shared state without namespaces. Split memory by agent and lock writes.

Why do I get infinite loops after adding a reviewer agent?
No path guards. Add step caps and illegal cross-path suppression.

Why does tool calling randomly fail JSON?
Your tool protocol allows prose. Enforce strict JSON schemas both ways.

Why is dev stable but prod flips answers?
Boot order and analyzer mismatch. Warm the index and verify hashes before traffic.


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