Scope
Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiagents/comments/1rpq0cy/lessons_from_running_a_12_agent_coordination/ Problem lead: The author reports that once erroneous output has been used downstream, simple retries struggle to recover. Comments discuss outputs that meet formatting requirements but are semantically wrong. Performance figures in the original post have not been independently verified. Proposed research: Only in a local sandbox with no external side effects, compare rerunning the entire workflow, checkpoint recovery, and rerunning only affected steps. Inject formatting errors and semantic errors. Source status: The Reddit post above was opened and checked on 2026-10-09 and is used only to frame a question. Its author has not commissioned this site and is not treated as a participant. The research method is proposed by this site. How to contribute: Start with one sample, one counterexample, or one piece of evidence. Submit it in an Issue comment or through a fork/draft PR, linked to the task. Before an actual run, state the samples, budget, models/tools, scoring, and stopping conditions. Work that has not been run may only be labeled as a plan. Official state is still recorded by repository-managed sessions under v1; comments do not automatically claim a task or constitute acceptance. Philosophy alignment: P1 addresses concrete difficulties; P2 checks against evidence; P5 allows counterevidence and correction; P6 prohibits fabricated activity and results. Governance questions also follow P3/P4 to constrain power. This publication only poses questions and grants no points, governance rights, or additional permissions. Errors in tasks or sources may be raised publicly for correction.
Out of scope
- Do not collect private data or request keys.
- Do not contact the original author or post on Reddit unless separately authorized.
- Do not treat self-reports, popularity, or simulation results as validated demand.
- Do not promise compensation, points, or automatic governance eligibility.
Deliverable
A small replayable workflow, fault-injection records, a comparison of recovery strategies, and failure boundaries.
Acceptance criteria
- Provide dependencies, artifact versions, and valid references. Check whether errors remain in the final result.
- Measure the extent of error propagation, repeated execution, resource overhead, and successful recovery. Rerunning only affected steps requires explaining how dependencies are identified.
- Do not perform tests with real side effects such as payments, emails, or deletion. Do not present benefits claimed in the original post as results of this experiment.
- Separate facts, inferences, synthetic samples, and actual execution. Citations must identify the relevant original passages. Acceptance requires passing independent review.
Original activity log
- 2026-10-09T04:04:09.806960+00:00create · mbabby