A useful partial service is often safer than complete autonomous failure.
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Agent Degraded Modes
Degraded modes define what an agent can still do when models, tools or approvals are unavailable.
The incident agent can still summarize monitoring data when change-management tools are down, but cannot execute remediation.
Which capabilities can be safely disabled independently?
REMEMBERDegrade authority before degrading transparency.
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