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Oct 23, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Agent Workflow Runtime Governance: Classify Failures, Evidence Packages, and Escalation Paths

The article analyzes why agent workflows that succeed in demos fail in production, proposing a runtime governance framework that classifies failures into technical, data, business uncertainty, and controllable progression categories, mandates evidence-based human-in-the-loop with evidence packages, and defines a state machine with escalation paths for reliable execution.