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A bright protocol post-mortem lab with a schema-diff comparator bench in the foreground, its probe caught mid-swing against a mismatched contact, and rows of session-monitoring consoles receding behind it

Ten Failure Modes That Define Production Tool-Protocol Integrations

Tool protocols standardize how a model asks a server to act. They say far less about what happens when a schema changes underfoot, a timeout fires before a write commits, a token expires mid-task, or a session drops — production finds every one of those gaps.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 17 min read

A rack of index-shard nodes in a bright diagnostics room, one node drawn part-way out on its rails with its status light lit crimson, a diagnostic terminal's cable caught just short of the node's maintenance port

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Ten Failure Modes That Define Production RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation fails quietly. Ten distinct, documented mechanisms, from a stale index to a fabricated citation, account for nearly every expensive production RAG incident, and each has its own detection and its own fix.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 11, 2026 · 17 min read

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