Cascading Failures: When One Agent's Mistake Takes Down the Whole System (ASI08)

This is post #8 of the OWASP Agentic AI Top 10: What Builders on AWS Need to Know series. A search tool starts returning errors. 2% failure rate. Nothing dramatic. Your agent retries. Makes sense. But the agent&rsquo;s retry logic lives inside a probabilistic reasoning engine that doesn&rsquo;t understand backpressure. It retries immediately. And again. And again. Each retry burns tokens, adds…