Question 12
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Scenario: Multi-agent Research System - During research, the web-search subagent queries three source categories with different outcomes: academic databases return 15 relevant papers, industry reports return “0 results,” and patent databases return “Connection timeout.” When designing error propagation to the coordinator, which approach enables the best recovery decisions? Which approach enables the best recovery decisions?
- AAggregate the results into a single success-percentage metric (e.g., “67% source coverage”) with detailed logs available on demand.
- BReport both “timeout” and “0 results” as failures requiring coordinator intervention.
- CRetry transient failures internally and report only persistent errors.
- DDistinguish access failures (timeout) that require a retry decision from valid empty results (“0 results”) that represent successful queries.