Solution Design & Architecture·Task 1.4·Bloom: analyse·Difficulty 3/5·10 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

Failure-Boundary Design in Orchestration (CCAR-P)

Design multi-agent systems and orchestration strategies

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In short
Failure-boundary design puts retry, gap-flagging, and human-gate controls around orchestration so failures and irreversible actions never pass silently into the final output. A missing retry or gap-flag on a failed subagent silently drops that unit of work; an irreversible downstream action taken with no human gate is a control-boundary defect; and a well-designed orchestration flags coverage gaps rather than presenting partial results as complete.

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