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When AI Agents Fail: Engineering Reliable Recovery with Microsoft Foundry

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PavanKalyanChilakalapalli
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Aug 13, 2026

Idempotency, tool failure semantics, recovery state machines, and human intervention for production agentic systems

Introduction: The Failure That Demos Do Not Show A user asks an AI agent a simple question: "Create a procurement request for 10 laptops for the new project team." The agent does what it wa...
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krisihadjiev
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Sep 14, 2026

Quite interesting post.

And definitely something the Enterprise needs!

As looks like this can be done "generally" maybe it worth thinking of creating an open-standard for Agent Recovery.

I will be happy to collab on that. 😊