⭐️ Most common anti-patterns, Detectable
| Anti-pattern | Problem | Impact | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool soup | Too many tools (10+ or more) | Accuracy decreases | Curate tools |
| ⭐️ Tool data overload (The firehose effect) | Too much data | Context exhaustion | Filter early |
| ⭐️ Agent-washing | Overuse agents | Unnecessary reasoning cost | Use tools/workflows |
| Blind trust in unverified components | Unaudited MCP | Security risk | Audit/sandbox |
| ⭐️ Happy path engineering | No failure handling | Much lower success | Train on failure |
| Multi-agent chaos | No coordination | Duplication | Tightly bounded agent per use case |
| ⭐️ Responsiveness afterthought | No latency focus | User drop-off | Set budgets and design with scale in mind |
| Unbounded execution cost | Always large models | High cost | Optimize models and tool usage |
| Demo-grade agent in production | No real testing | Cannot handle real world situations | Load test, Scale test, design with failure in mind |