Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
The seam is where it breaks Spend a week reading production write-ups from teams running multi-agent systems and one observation recurs with unusual consistency: most of what gets filed as an "agent failure" is not a model capability failure at all. It is an orchestration and context-transfer failure. The individual agents were competent. The research agent found the right sources. The drafting agent could have written a good draft. What went wrong happened in between, at the moment one agent handed the task to the next and the receiving agent started work on a version of reality that was subtly, invisibly different from the one the sender had. The reason is not mysterious. Handoffs in most systems rely on unstated assumptions about alignment, timing and shared context. The producer…
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