Design a failure-recovery strategy for an agent that coordinates three external tools.

Instruction: Explain how you would design recovery when one step fails after earlier steps succeeded.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Explain how you would design recovery when one step fails after earlier steps succeeded.

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I would not design recovery as one generic retry loop. Each tool needs its own policy, and the orchestrator needs...

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