Seam Debt: The Hidden Tax on Multi-Agent Handoffs
Multi-agent systems rarely fail at the node — they fail at the seam between agents. Seam debt is the work lost at every handoff, and the teams that win the multi-agent era treat the boundary itself as the product.
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.
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