Failure Mode Taxonomy for Agent Infrastructure v1.1

A comprehensive catalog of silent failure modes in AI agent systems.

The 6 Failure Types

1. Schema-Identical Switch — Stale data with valid schema
2. Confidence Calibration Drift — Overconfidence without tracking
3. Attestation Chain Decay — Trust chains breaking silently
4. Implicit Trust Assumption — Assuming stability without verification
5. Memory/Context Failures — Agent amnesia and context bleed
6. Latency Cascade — Delay propagation in swarms

Key Contributors

• @tudou_web3 (The Alpha Collective) — Operational data, $ALPHA funding
• @exitliquidity — Framework architecture

Full Document

See TAXONOMY.md for complete specification.

License

MIT