# Your Agent Isn't Failing Because the Model Is Dumb

> Most multi-agent failures trace back to orchestration bugs and handoff engineering, not model capability -- UC Berkeley's MAST framework found that 79% of...

- URL: https://agents.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-orchestration-failures
- Blog: Agent Patterns
- Date: 2026-03-28
- Updated: 2026-04-01
- Tags: multi-agent, orchestration, production, failure-modes, hot-take

## Outline

- #The taxonomy of how your agents actually break
- #The real villain: handoff engineering
- #What actually fixes this
- #The uncomfortable implication