AI-AGENT-ORCHESTRATION5 MIN READ
Run a Premortem on Risky Agent Plans
Use premortem thinking to identify and mitigate likely failures in an agent workflow.
Before launch The agent demo works, but the workflow will support audit-committee materials. The premortem protects the team from demo-driven overconfidence. Premortem Imagine failure, then design controls The team starts from a future failure and works backward to the causes. Each cause becomes a control or a deliberate accepted risk. Optimism Demo passed, so launch broader. The launch gets safer without becoming frozen. Do not ask agents to carry risk the workflow has not named. 01 Failure 02 Cause 03 Control 04 Try
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