Graceful Degradation
Domain: Agent Fundamentals
🎯 Motivation
When something goes wrong, the agent should degrade gracefully - provide a partial result rather than crashing completely.
📋 Concrete Example
Full capability: agent writes, tests, and deploys code. If deployment fails: agent still delivers the written and tested code with a note: ‘Deployment failed, but code is ready.’ Partial result, not a crash.
🔗 Analogy
A GPS losing satellite signal - instead of crashing, it shows the last known route and says ‘Signal lost, following cached route.’ Graceful degradation gives partial value even when something fails.