Escalate on a budget, not an error: when an AI agent should hand off to a human
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A retry is not a fresh draw, and waiting for an exception means waiting past the point where anything was recoverable. Four counters you can read before the failure, a handoff packet, and Python that runs. Mercor's best agent on APEX-Agents passes 24.0% of its tasks on one attempt . Give it eight a…
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Escalate on a budget, not an error: when an AI agent should hand off to a human
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