Flawed Workflow Design

Detects structural problems in agent workflow graphs including unreachable nodes, dead ends, missing error handling, bottlenecks, and missing termination conditions.

Examples

• Workflow has a node that can never be reached from the start node
• Agent graph has a path with no terminal node -- workflow never ends
• AI processing nodes have no error handling -- single failure crashes entire workflow
• All paths funnel through a single bottleneck node creating a scalability issue

Detection methods

Graph Traversal

Checks reachability of all nodes from start

Dead End Detection

Identifies paths with no terminal nodes

Error Handler Audit

Verifies error handling on critical nodes

Bottleneck Analysis

Detects nodes with disproportionate in-degree

Calibration accuracy

From the Pisama calibration set. See detector scoreboard for the full table.

Subtypes

• unreachable node
• dead end
• missing error handling
• bottleneck
• missing termination