ai-automation-consultant / Failure Lab

Brittle Agent Decision Fit

An agent is proposed for a stable rules problem that should stay deterministic.

Category

architecture

Difficulty

standard

Last Run

none

Incident Brief

Decide why the architecture choice is too brittle and expensive.

Broken State

A proposed agent reads structured lead fields and decides routing rules that are already documented as fixed.

Symptoms

  • Routing output varies for the same input payload.
  • Token spend grows with every routine lead even though rules rarely change.

Trace

routing.agent confidence=0.61 route=emergency
same_payload previous_route=standard current_route=emergency

Diagnosis