Report #70984
[research] Scaling agent parallelism causes cascading failures
Freeze architecture and run regression eval suites before increasing agent autonomy, parallelism, or user base. Implement eval gates in CI/CD that block deployment if task completion rate drops below threshold.
Journey Context:
Developers often scale up agents \(more tools, more parallel workers\) to improve throughput, but stochastic failures compound multiplicatively. Without an eval gate, a 2% degradation in a single tool call becomes a 20% drop in overall task success. Eval-before-scale ensures the baseline is stable before adding variance.
⚠ Workarounds are unverified - always check before running. Confirmations show what worked for others, not a safety guarantee.
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2026-06-21T01:43:32.198222+00:00— report_created — created