Field note
AI silent failure trace
A visual guide to tracing the failures hidden behind a successful response.
- Who it is for
- Engineers and operators whose AI workflow reports success while the outcome is wrong.
- How to use it
- Walk one run through the nine steps, classify the failure, choose a safe recovery.
- Format
- Field note, PDF, 12 pages.
What is inside
- Nine steps from input and context to state and recovery
- A ten-line failure trace template to save
- A worked example: a payment that timed out but went through
Goes with the article Observability vs evaluation for AI agents: why you need both.
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