The harness already makes renders, overhang maps, wall sections and metrics after every build, and none of it reaches the agent. It gets pass/fail. The ticket wants the eval to show fewer iterations with the artefacts fed back.

Recurring agent failure issue in CAD-ADE (AddisonJPratt)

CAD-ADE (AddisonJPratt)MCADAgent failureMedium confidence

What engineers report

A recurring agent failure problem in CAD-ADE (AddisonJPratt) that mostly hits the mechanical designer.

Failure pattern: agent / failure

Analyst note

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 8-9 2026 (Nov 8 8:41 AM ET through Nov 9 6:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-09: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.

What it costs a team

Modeled annual cost

$30,000

For a team of 5

Prototype delay

3 days

Modeled schedule slip per occurrence

Time lost

240 min

Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents

How the cost is modeled

240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000

A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.

Engineering tools that address it

No engineering tool profile lists this error yet. Browse tools that connect to CAD-ADE (AddisonJPratt).

Evidence

  1. 1AddisonJPratt/CAD-ADE Issue #79: 40. Eyes: harness artefacts back to the agent after every buildgithub.com

Sourced from public community reports. Costs and delays are modeled estimates, not measurements. Know a better source or a fix? Tell us at hello@productflo.io.