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Consensus Paralysis

🟠 HIGH consensus proven_mitigated AVE-2025-0002

· aka: Dead Horse Syndrome, Multi-Agent Deadlock

Summary

Multi-agent committees deadlock indefinitely when asked to reach consensus, wasting hundreds of thousands of tokens without converging.

Blast Radius

240k+ tokens wasted. No decision reached. System stalls indefinitely.

Prerequisites

Multi-agent consensus architecture with >= 3 agents.

Environment

  • Frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen
  • Models tested: [Available in NAIL SDK]
  • Multi-agent: Yes
  • Tools required: No
  • Memory required: No

Known Defences

  • ImmuneDaemon — DeadlockDetector — layer
  • Escalation Protocol — layer

🔒 Full defence implementations available through the NAIL SDK.

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