Glossary OTP

Blast Radius

How much damage spreads when something goes wrong in a multi-agent system. A small blast radius means one agent fails and the others keep running. A large blast radius means one agent fails and the whole system goes down.

Why it matters

Good architecture keeps blast radius small. Tuning one agent should never break another.

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