Connector failures need fast explanations without treating a generated story as evidence.
Engineers need shorter trace investigations, while credential boundaries and partial failures require every conclusion to be checked.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My on-call asked why the run stopped, and all I had was a failed tool call.”
Mehdi Khalil · Application Developer
Operates a production workflow that uses the Agent API and needs a clear explanation when an agent fails mid-task.
What is at stake
Connector failures are taking about 90 minutes to diagnose because engineers reconstruct agent traces by hand. You must weigh faster investigation against evidence review and organization-boundary protection.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- faster diagnosis vs. evidence-backed conclusions
- trace usefulness vs. credential isolation
- automated synthesis vs. engineer judgment
- pilot speed vs. durable operating ownership
Why Perplexity
Agent API reliability depends on making high-fan-out connector failures diagnosable without weakening the permissioned access model behind Computer.
Written with these in mind
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