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Jul 17, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Stopping Hallucination Cascades in Multi‑Agent Pipelines: A Three‑Step Trust‑Decay and Isolation Protocol

The article analyzes how a tiny hallucination in an upstream AI agent can explode into a full‑pipeline failure and proposes a three‑step cascade‑blocking method—cross‑node verification, confidence decay, and physical isolation—to cut error propagation by up to 95%.