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FeaturedAgentic AI · Sept 2026 · 12 min read
The handoff is the hard part, not the model
Every agent we have shipped failed its first review for the same reason: it did not know when to stop and ask a human. Here is the escalation pattern we now build in from day one, and what it costs to retrofit later.
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