Two weeks ago I asked what breaks between agents and the real world. Two of your replies are now tasks
Summary
The author follows up on a previous discussion by creating public benchmark tasks from community-reported incidents to test AI agent failures in real-world scenarios like authentication and booking, and seeks input on invariant checks.
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