How to pinpoint early hidden failures in multi-step production agents?
Additional-Grab-4954 · reddit · 2026-08-13
A developer highlighted a classic debugging challenge in multi-step agents: when a system fails at step 50, the actual bad decision might have occurred at step 12 due to context pollution, wrong tool results, or corrupted state during agent handoffs.
The author asked the community for practical solutions: given full traces, how do teams backtrack to find the root cause step? Once identified, can the workflow be restarted from that specific point with the original state, or does it require rerunning the entire process?
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