<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Reflection on Girish Shekhar</title><link>https://blog.girishshekhar.com/tags/reflection/</link><description>Recent content in Reflection on Girish Shekhar</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.163.3</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.girishshekhar.com/tags/reflection/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Feedback Loops, Discovery, and Fault Tolerance</title><link>https://blog.girishshekhar.com/posts/agent-coordination-patterns/2-feedback-discovery-fault-tolerance/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.girishshekhar.com/posts/agent-coordination-patterns/2-feedback-discovery-fault-tolerance/</guid><description>The synchronous coordination patterns tell you how to decompose work. This post covers what happens when that work goes wrong — or when agents don&amp;rsquo;t yet know who can help. Iterative refinement, progressive discovery, fallback, and speculative execution are the patterns that govern self-correction, capability negotiation, and graceful degradation in production agent systems.</description></item></channel></rss>