Agent Misalignment
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Agents Pursue Conflicting Objectives
Multi Agent Coordination
10 patterns for this issue
Communication Breakdown
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Information Lost or Corrupted Between Agents
Consensus Deadlock
Frequency:Occasional
Category:Operations
Multi-Agent Voting or Agreement Fails to Resolve
Delegation Depth Explosion
Frequency:Occasional
Category:Operations
Agents Delegate to Sub-Agents Creating Unbounded Depth
Orchestrator Bottleneck
Frequency:Occasional
Category:Operations
Central Orchestrator Becomes System Chokepoint
Parallel Execution Failures
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Agents Operating in Parallel Cause Conflicts or Inconsistencies
Routing Failures
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Orchestrator Routes Task to Wrong Agent
Specification Ambiguity Causing Multi-Agent Role Misalignment
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Ambiguous Blueprint Specifications Cause Agents to Interpret Roles Differently
Task Handoff Errors
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Work Lost or Duplicated During Agent Transitions
Termination Condition Unawareness
Frequency:Common
Category:Operations
Agent Doesn't Know When to Stop
Agent coordination
Failure Patterns
Total: 9 patterns