Identifies failed steps and supports retry, rollback, or recovery of task flows.
Detects where a multi-step process failed and supports recovery: replay from a checkpoint, rollback, or targeted retry. The unglamorous capability that determines whether agentic systems are operable in production.
Any multi-step process with side effects, where partial completion leaves an inconsistent state.
Read-only flows, where a failed run is simply rerun.
Recovery must be idempotent. A retry that duplicates an already-completed step is a financial misstatement rather than an operational inconvenience.
Replaying from a checkpoint that predates a completed side effect, so the effect happens twice.
An agent that posted two of three entries before failing, where recovery identifies which landed by their ERP document numbers rather than by its own record of intent.