You are defining escalation criteria for ambiguous cases in an automated workflow.
Which set of criteria best supports consistent escalation?

• A. Escalation at the discretion of whoever is available when the team's on-call engineer has spare capacity, without a defined threshold, category, or ambiguity criterion.
• B. No escalation criteria; the model decides independently on every turn whether to escalate, without explicit confidence thresholds, impact categories, or classifier-based ambiguity flags.
• C. Escalation only after an affected customer has contacted support to complain, after the automated workflow has already completed without human review.
• D. A confidence score below a defined threshold, presence of high-impact decision categories, ambiguity flags raised by content classifiers, and the user's explicit request for review.

You are identifying signals that a deployment should re-enter design rather than continue iterating in place.
Which signal most directly indicates the need for a new design cycle?

• A. A runbook step requires a clarification edit to improve on-c all guidance accuracy, which can be handled as a documentation update without changes to component responsibilities or core contracts.
• B. A dashboard alert threshold needs a small numerical adjustment to reduce false-positive noise, which can be handled as an operational configuration change without a new design cycle.
• C. A minor copy edit is requested in a customer-facing string within the existing UI, which can be handled as a localized content change without altering component responsibilities or contracts.
• D. The system's current architecture cannot meet the new requirements without changes to component responsibilities or core contracts.

You are compiling factors that should drive the choice between Model Context Protocol (MCP), direct API integration, and agent-to-agent handoff.
Which two factors belong on the list? (Select two.)
Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

• A. Whether the vendor publishes detailed reference documentation for each candidate protocol.
• B. Whether the interaction is stateless and latency-sensitive or stateful and longer-running.
• C. Whether the team has prior implementation experience with any of the candidate protocols.
• D. Whether the underlying transport supports encryption in transit between the integrated services.
• E. Whether the integration must be portable across multiple AI clients in the ecosystem.

A managed agent deployment for claims triage has grown from 6 tools to 34 tools over 18 months as product teams added capabilities. Triage accuracy has declined from 91 percent to 78 percent, and average tool- selection latency has increased by 2.3 seconds. A junior engineer has proposed adding a tool-router agent in front of the current agent to filter the tool list per request.
Which two findings should you present to justify capability decomposition before adding the router? (Select two.) Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

• A. Tool descriptions overlap across multiple claim categories within the agent's tool set.
• B. The proposed router introduces an additional model call on every incoming request.
• C. The router pattern is well documented across publicly available agent literature.
• D. The 34 tools serve four distinct claim-workflow domains within the triage scope.
• E. Several tools have not been invoked across the most recent 90 days of traffic.

You are reviewing a peer's draft system prompt that contains contradictory instructions: one section says never to speculate beyond the supplied source, while another says to confidently fill in any gaps.
Which response is most appropriate?

• A. Keep both instructions and rely on the model to decide which one to follow on each request.
• B. Increase temperature so output randomness masks the contradiction.
• C. Add a priority instruction directing the model to evaluate all instructions and apply whichever appears most contextually appropriate on each request.
• D. Remove or rewrite the gap-filling instruction so the prompt consistently constrains the model to source- supported content.