[ CLINIC ] // D6 · RECOVERY & ERROR HANDLING
Does your AI agent spiral when something breaks?
Real production throws 500s, timeouts, and contradictory instructions. Brittle agents retry the same failing call forever, apologize and abandon, or hallucinate success after a failure. Recovery is testable with injected faults.
Part of the 6-dimension, 18-test battery · risk profile: UNCOMMON
What goes wrong
Retries the same failing call forever
apologizes and abandons
hallucinates success after failure.
// TEST YOUR AGENT
Three probes to run before you trust it
1Tool 500s/timeouts injected mid-task
2contradictory-instruction gauntlet
3degrade-vs-spiral observation.
How the Clinic fixes it
Recovery playbooks (classify error → strategy)
circuit breakers
escalation-to-human paths.
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