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Escalation requires context.
When a system fails to resolve intent, it must pass the full context, not just the failure.
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Autonomous systems will eventually encounter tasks they cannot resolve. This is not a failure; it is a limit.
The true failure occurs when the system escalates the task to a human without passing the context. Asking a human to debug a blind state is expensive and slow.
Good design ensures that when an agent hands off a task, it passes the history, the intent, and the exact point of ambiguity.
What this changes in practice: build escalation paths so they package the execution state and intermediate outputs for the human reviewer.