The five 'agent doesn't have what it needs' failure modes

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Diagnosing why an agent task failed requires naming which variant hit: (1) silent zero — tool ran but produced nothing, (2) wrong source default — right tool, wrong flag, (3) path-unknown — tool exists but agent looked in the wrong place, (4) op-loop stall — correct diagnosis but iteration budget ran out, (5)…

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