AI agents

Subagent return schemas and error passing

• When a Subagent Returns Partial Work: Accept or Fail Loudly
• A Subagent Return Schema Built to Survive a Model Swap
• A Subagent Return Schema: A Reason Code and a Retry Hint
• A Validator That Branches on Coverage, Not Just Validity
• Accept, Retry or Escalate: A Decision Table for Partial Returns
• Reason Codes vs Free Text: Which the Model Picks Right
• Reason Codes vs Free-Text Errors: A Test Suite for Return Schemas
• Versioning an Agent-to-Agent Return Contract
• What the Orchestrator Logs When a Subagent Refuses
• When a Child Returns an Error the Parent Cannot Read
• When a Subagent Should Fail Loudly, Not Partly
• When the Agent Picks Two Codes: Storing Multi-Label Output
• Writing a Subagent Return Schema That Survives Model Swaps