Multi-Agent SRE: What Happens When Your Agents Want Opposite Things (opens in new tab)

Multi-agent SRE systems fail in three main ways: agents with conflicting goals acting on the same infrastructure, stale state causing agents to act on outdated facts, and deadlocks where agents freeze waiting on each other. The fix isn't smarter agents, it's better architecture. Build a shared state layer, codify a priority hierarchy (security beats SLA beats cost), add an orchestration layer with real authority to block conflicting actions, classify actions by risk tier, and define explicit ...