Where should the failure boundary sit between the model, the orchestrator, and the tool layer?

Instruction: Explain how you would divide responsibility for failures across the main layers of an agent system.

Context: Checks whether the candidate can explain the core concept clearly and connect it to real production decisions. Explain how you would divide responsibility for failures across the main layers of an agent system.

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The way I'd think about it is this: The model should fail at judgment. The orchestrator should fail at control. The tool layer should fail at execution. In other words, the model decides, the orchestrator governs how decisions become actions, and the tool layer is responsible for...

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