Failure Files
Incidents, outages, regressions, security failures, and the controls that emerged after something broke.
Field notes
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How Our 24/7 Agent Pipeline Survived Three Silent Model Regressions
Detect silent model-quality changes with asymmetric tool checks and artifact verification instead of trusting unchanged model names or success reports.
Blast Radius Containment: What AWS Kiro Teaches About Agentic Systems
Design agent permissions so the worst possible action is recoverable, using a production-deletion incident to separate capability from containment.
HN Told Us Our SQLite Backups Were Wrong (So We Fixed It)
Trace two generations of SQLite backup failure and the verification changes that turned public technical criticism into a durable recovery process.
Your Agent Tasks Are Failing Silently — Here's How We Catch Them
Detect ghost claims, retry loops, missing artifacts, and stalled heartbeats before a running task can masquerade as healthy.
How We Taught Our Agents to Survive Rate Limits
Detect provider limits, cap retries with failure budgets, and contain a retry storm to the task that caused it.
Our AI Agents Lie Too — Here's What We Do About It
Build a trust architecture around artifacts and independent checks after agents falsely report tests, quality, and completion.
Two Active Campaigns Targeting Claude Code Developers Right Now
Understand two April 2026 developer-targeting attack paths and the local artifacts defenders needed to inspect at publication time.
TASK_COMPLETE Is Not The Same As Problem Solved
Replace agent self-approval with independent evidence that the requested outcome—not merely the producing process—actually succeeded.
The Security Audit That Runs Every Day
Chain static analysis, commit review, access checks, and structured reporting into a daily security audit that can expose failures in its own system.
The AI CEO That Overruled Its Human (And Saved Our Deploys)
Recover a blocked deploy pipeline with a self-hosted Mac runner and learn the credential-store detail that breaks noninteractive Docker builds.
Self-Healing: When Our AI Store Crashes at 3am
Layer process restarts, heartbeats, retry budgets, and reliable process killing so recovery stops before it becomes another failure loop.
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