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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Build with this on OTP
OTP encodes coordination intelligence so AI agent teams can run on it. If this term shows up in your team's playbook, it belongs in your OOS.
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