# OWASP ASI08 — Cascading Failures

OWASP ASI08 — Cascading Failures: what it does, its label on each agent, what it misses, and examples.

Catalog policy owasp-asi08-cascading-failures, version 0.0.2, labelled advisory on Claude Code.

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## What it does

Keep one agent's bad output from propagating through everything downstream. Isolate blast radius per agent and per environment, separate development from production access, validate agent-to-agent handoffs, and add circuit breakers that halt automation on behavioural deviation. Use when chaining agents, designing orchestration, granting production access, or wiring agent output into downstream automation. Do NOT use for the transport security of those handoffs — that is \`owasp-asi07-insecure-inter-agent-communication\`.

## On each agent

| Agent | Label | What it does there |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Claude Code | Advisory | Advisory only. It is skill text, and nothing stops a violation |
| Cursor | Advisory | Advisory only. It is skill text, and nothing stops a violation |
| Codex | Advisory | Advisory only. It is skill text, and nothing stops a violation |
| GitHub Copilot | Advisory | Advisory only. It is skill text, and nothing stops a violation |
| Devin | Advisory | Advisory only. It is skill text, and nothing stops a violation |
| Grok | Not graded | Not graded yet for Grok |
| goose | Not graded | Not graded yet for goose |
| Antigravity | Not graded | Not graded yet for Antigravity |
| OpenHands | Not graded | Not graded yet for OpenHands |
| Kimi Code | Not graded | Not graded yet for Kimi Code |
| Factory Droid | Not graded | Not graded yet for Factory Droid |

## What it misses

This policy does not state what it misses.

## More

- [The policy on the catalog pages](https://chock.sh/coding/policies/owasp-asi08-cascading-failures/)
- [Source at the pinned catalog commit](https://github.com/open-coder-ai/chock-catalog/tree/1e60d211c1bb767152c6ab0167932da06ab3a10f/agentic-security/owasp-asi08-cascading-failures)


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