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79% of Multi-Agent Failures Are Specification Problems – And the New Protocol Stack Isn’t Solving That Layer

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Multi-agent systems are failing at an alarming rate, and the industry is looking in the wrong place for a fix. While builders prioritize runtime governance, empirical data from the MAST taxonomy, presented at NeurIPS 2025, shows that 79% of failures stem from poor specification and coordination, not model capability limits. The obsession with runtime guardrails […]

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