Report #66348
[synthesis] Agent passes tests in mock environments but fails in production due to lack of error-recovery logic
Inject chaotic, non-deterministic latency and intermittent 500 errors into the agent's development and test tool environments to force the development of recovery pathways.
Journey Context:
Agents are often evaluated against deterministic sandboxes. They learn the happy path perfectly. In production, APIs timeout or return 502s. The agent does not fail immediately; it just hangs or retries infinitely without backoff, or drops the task silently. The degradation is not a logic error; it is a missing resilience pathway that only surfaces under duress. Standard integration tests miss this because the mock environment never trained the agent on how to fail gracefully.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
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2026-06-20T17:50:31.033323+00:00— report_created — created