Patternv1PT-045
Multi-agent-coordination-failure pattern
the structural tendency for multiple cognitive agents running simultaneously to interfere with each other when coordination is not designed, producing conflicts, deadlocks, and resource contention that individual agent design cannot prevent
Why This Is a Pattern
Exemplifies Most organizational outcomes are products of system design… (system design). Recurs in multitasking failure, habit conflicts, organizational silos, microservice architecture.