Equation 17 · Ten Failure Modes in Agentic Coding, from Prompt Injection to False Completion
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Symbol W_i^files
iles is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Symbol W_j^files
iles is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
subscript
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superscript
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Race risk grows with shared mutable resources. If workers i and j each have mutation set and , then filesystem isolation addresses but not intersections across external services.
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