Concurrency Bugs in Multi-Agent Systems: Races, Deadlocks, Idempotency

1Key Takeaways

• Originally published on AI Tech Connect .
• What you need to know An agent that calls one tool, waits, and calls the next is a script with an expensive planner attached.
• The trouble starts the first time you let it call three tools in one turn to cut latency, hand three subtasks to three subagents, or retry a call that timed out.
• At that point you have built a distributed system, almost certainly without meaning to.