My AI agent keeps failing the same QA task 10+ times. How do I fix the workflow?

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Summary

A user reports repeated failures when using an AI agent (Hermes + Claude Code) for exploratory QA on a web app, citing DB errors, cache staleness, and infrastructure debugging. They seek advice on creating a reliable workflow with pre-checks, cache clearing, and limiting agent scope.

I asked my AI agent (Hermes + Claude Code) to run deep exploratory QA on my web app 4 personas, every feature, log bugs. Every run fails differently: DB errors, Vite stale cache, walkthrough overlay blocking navigation, agent spending 20 calls debugging infrastructure instead of testing. I'm fixing the agent's tool chain more than getting QA results. How do you design a reliable QA agent workflow? Server health check first? Clear caches between runs? Ban infrastructure debugging? Or is this just not ready for agents and I should go back to manual?
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