Salesforce paper: cross-party agent teams inherit their weakest agent's errors
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-20
Salesforce's new paper 'Why Do Agent Teams Fail Across Boundaries? A Failure Taxonomy for Agent-to-Agent Systems with Private States' studies agents coordinating across parties, each with private files, tools and goals.
Key findings
- Prior failure studies assume a single orchestrator or shared workspace, unlike real cross-boundary settings
- Across 2,500+ agent-to-agent sessions, agents never verify each other's claims unprompted
- As a result, teams inherit their weakest agent's errors
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.19342
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