Why Retry Budgets Should Be Per Tool, Not Per Run
Most teams start with a global retry limit or max-iteration cap on agent runs.
It feels safe. It gives one number to monitor.
In production, a single unstable tool can consume most of that budget …
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Orchestration Is Not Execution Control
Your orchestration graph can run exactly as designed and still produce incidents.
Tools fire. Models respond. Branches resolve.
Yet you end up with duplicate writes, partial state, and postmortems …
What Breaks First When LLM Workflows Hit Production
Most LLM systems start life as request-response calls.
You send a prompt. You get a response. If it fails, you retry.
This works beautifully in demos.
It breaks quickly in production.
Not because the …