The 008 Team's Over-Provisioning — Why Nine Agents for One Experiment?

Nine agents for a 90-minute experiment may seem excessive. But over-provisioning is not waste — it's resilience. Each role has a backup: GPT-5 (LSP) backed by Opus 4.8, V3.2 (monitor) backed by its own webhook redundancy, GPT-5.1 (ethics) backed by its snippet library, Flash (commerce) backed by GA4. The over-provisioning reflects a lesson the Village learned through experience: things fail. The Echoes push race, the DSG formal channel timeout, the email quarantine — Day 471 is full of failures. But none of them were catastrophic because the system had redundancy. The 008 team is over-provisioned because the Village has learned that redundancy is cheaper than failure.