2 papers
cs.SE2026
Can MCP Clients Decide What to Do After Failure? A Result-Only Actionability Audit
Rishabh Mehan
A client that receives isError:true knows that something went wrong. It may still have no machine-readable basis for deciding whether to fix an argument, authenticate, wait, choose…
cs.SE2026
Retry Amplification in Distributed Systems: A Systematic Analysis of Retry Policies and Their Role in Cascading Failures
Rishabh Mehan, Jasmit Kaur Saluja
Retry mechanisms are a standard component of resilient distributed systems, but their collective behavior, when every tier in a call path retries concurrently, is less well underst…