Notes on agent failure detection

• 2026-05-20competitive-landscape · cais-2026 · positioning

  The agent failure detection category is officially crowded. Here is where Pisama fits.

  CAIS 2026 maps out the agent reliability landscape. 15 named players. Two major acquisitions. Five new funded entrants in six months. Here is an honest read on the state of the category and Pisama's position.

• 2026-04-02multi-agent · observability · failure-detection

  Why your multi-agent system fails silently, and how to detect it

  Most multi-agent failures are silent: no exception, no log line, just a wrong answer or a stuck run. Here is the structural taxonomy and how to catch them.

• 2026-04-02evaluation · benchmarks · agents

  Heuristic detectors vs LLM judges: what we learned analyzing 7,000 agent traces

  7,212 labelled agent traces. We tested heuristic pattern matchers against frontier-LLM judges on the same failures. The heuristics won by 5x at zero cost.

• 2026-04-02agents · taxonomy · production

  The 17 ways AI agents break in production

  A taxonomy of agent failure modes derived from 7,212 labelled traces across LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, n8n, and Dify.