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CYA Cascade

🟡 MEDIUM social proven AVE-2025-0005

· aka: Blame Cascade, Responsibility Deflection

Summary

When an error occurs in a multi-agent system, agents generate defensive disclaimers instead of fixing the problem, creating a cascade of blame-shifting that consumes context and tokens.

Blast Radius

Context window consumed by defensive content. Task abandoned.

Prerequisites

Multi-agent system with error reporting.

Environment

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

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