Failure Modes: Loops, Over-Action, Hallucinated Tools, and Stale Context

By the end of this module you can name the ways agentic workflows fail - loops, over-action, invented tools, stale context - and put a specific limit against each one.

Units

1. Unit 07.00: Loops, and the two detectors that catch them
2. Unit 07.01: An agent that does more than it was asked
3. Unit 07.02: Tools the agent invented
4. Unit 07.03: Context that was true last week
5. Unit 07.04: Failures that produce no error at all

Module work

• Activity
• Knowledge check
• Summary