Agent Failure Modes

About

A catalog of real, documented ways coding agents fail, and what stops them.

How entries are verified

Each entry links at least one public source: a GitHub issue, a vendor advisory or doc, a paper, or a reputable write-up. Each source also lists exact phrases from that page. A script opens every source and fails the check if any phrase is missing. Entries that can't be verified aren't published. Summaries paraphrase the source. Fix snippets are this site's suggestions, not quotes.

Contribute

Add a markdown file under src/content/entries/ with the same fields as the existing entries, including evidence phrases for every source. Then run npm run verify-sources and npm run build.