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Coordination Failure Monitor

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A monitoring component that detects multi-agent coordination breakdowns such as duplicate effort, dropped tasks and goal divergence from structured inter-agent messages.

Responsibility. Detects multi-agent coordination failures and triggers human intervention.

Also known as: Coordination monitoring

receives data fromescalates tomonitorsreadsAgent Message Bus: receives data fromAgent Message BusHuman Supervisor: escalates toHuman SupervisorMulti-Agent Coordinator: monitorsMulti-Agent CoordinatorTask State Ledger: readsTask State Ledger
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Relationships

reads dependency

escalates to dynamic

receives data from dynamic

monitors assurance

Design guidance

Classification

Patterns
Multi-agent governance
Quality attributes
Reliability (ISO/IEC 25010 | NIST AI RMF: valid and reliable)Maintainability (ISO/IEC 25010)
Risks mitigated
Duplicate effortDropped tasksGoal divergenceContradictory responses to the same customer

Sources

  1. Ch10.5: T. Nguyen, "Human-over-the-Loop," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.