How do you catch when an AI agent skips something it was supposed to do?
Summary
A developer discusses challenges in detecting when AI agents silently skip actions, highlighting the difficulty of distinguishing legitimate omissions (e.g., policy blocks) from failures, and calls for collaboration on agent reliability tooling.
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