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# failure • AI Agent SDK

> failure: Create a general failure outcome.

# failure

Method

> This is a method of the [**AgentRunOutcome**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/AgentRunOutcome.md) class in the [**run\_outcome**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/run_outcome.md) module.

Create a general failure outcome.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def failure(error: str, error_category: Optional[str], elapsed_s: float, agent_name: Optional[str], run_id: Optional[str], context: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]) -> 'AgentRunOutcome'
```

## Parameters

**error** `str` *required*

No description available.

**error\_category** `Optional[str]`

No description available.

**elapsed\_s** `float` (default: 0.0)

No description available.

**agent\_name** `Optional[str]`

No description available.

**run\_id** `Optional[str]`

No description available.

**context** `Optional`

No description available.

### Returns

**Returns** `'AgentRunOutcome'`

The result of the operation.

## Uses

* `cls`

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/run_outcome.py#L194)
>
> `praisonaiagents/run_outcome.py` at line 194


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