Sentinelayer Insights

Engineering essays on AI coding safety, governance, and merge approval standards.

Seam Debt: The Hidden Tax on Multi-Agent Handoffs

Seam Debt: The Hidden Tax on Multi-Agent Handoffs

Seam debt is the quiet tax every multi-agent system pays and almost no one budgets for: not the cost of any single agent being wrong, but the cost of two agents being individually right and collectively incoherent.