Case notes

Failure modes, tagged silent or loud, with the defence on and off.

8 pages, in reading order.

Case note · silentThe one line that made a bill ten times largerOne line carrying the time of day, placed at the top of the standing instructions, made every request pay the fresh reading rate.5 minute read
Case note · silentThe same tools in a different order, and a bill nobody could reproduceThe agent's tool list was assembled in whatever order it finished loading, so no two requests looked alike and no bill could be reproduced.5 minute read
Case note · silentOne check, run twice: the finding that was counted two waysA check that runs at two points in one request records one fact twice, and nothing downstream can tell.5 minute read
Case note · silentTwo clocks, one job: the message that arrived twiceThe same message left twice in eight seconds, because nothing between the agent and the outbox was counting.4 minute read
Case note · loudA request with no reply: when the meeting cannot continueAn agent that asks for something and receives nothing has no way to tell a refusal from a delay.5 minute read
Case note · silentThe forum post quoted back with the confidence of your board deckAn answer that cannot say where each claim came from cannot be checked, however good it reads.5 minute read
Case note · silentThe agent that signed as the CEOWhose name an agent signs and whose account it sends from are two settings, and neither belongs to the model.5 minute read
Case note · silent"I will loop Jordan in", said to JordanAn agent that does not know who it is talking to will write about that person as though they were absent.5 minute read