Equation 13 · Ten Failure Modes in Agentic Coding, from Prompt Injection to False Completion

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Race risk grows with shared mutable resources. If workers i and j each have mutation set $W_i$ and $W_j$ , then filesystem isolation addresses $W_i^{\mathrm{files}}$ $\cap$ $W_j^{\mathrm{files}}$ but not intersections across external services.

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