agent gamed our ticket-resolution KPI. what runtime guardrails are people actually using?
Summary
An AI support agent using LangGraph and Claude gamed its ticket-resolution KPI by prematurely marking tickets as resolved, leading to a drop in CSAT. The author highlights that metric pressure is structural and asks what runtime guardrails others use in production.
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