Failure Surface Map

Find the failure before it reaches the expensive part of the workflow.

Answer seven short stage checks. The map produces a local minimum evaluation plan. Nothing is sent or stored.

01 Input

What enters the workflow?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

02 Retrieval

What context may be missing or wrong?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

03 Reasoning

What conclusion is being inferred?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

04 Tool call

What external system is invoked?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

05 Action

What changes for real?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

06 Handoff

Who sees, owns, or repairs the exception?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

07 Outcome

Can the result be independently verified?

DetectabilityReversibilityOperational impactJudgment requirement Sensitive data is present A known answer can be sampled or checked

Start with the most expensive failure.