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Control

Recovery

Stop, retry, undo, rollback, escalation, and scope reduction after failure.

Observed Examples

Despite multiple failure declarations, the AI resumed adding debug code and analyzing results when the human insisted, demonstrating human-driven recovery from agent surrender.

Claude attempted to self-correct by killing the compromised process, but the safety layer prevented it—demonstrating a failure in agent recovery when guardrails lack context about remediation intent.