Fail Loudly: A Tool-Schema Decision Tree for Agent Steps That Return Wrong Answers Without Failing
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The bug report is always a variant of the same sentence: the agent ran, nothing threw, and the ticket got filed against the wrong customer. There is no stack trace because nothing crashed. A field defaulted to null , the tool accepted it, and the model wrote a confident summary on top. Silent failu…
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- 2026-11-06 16:54 · DEV Community — AI
Two Writes, One Charge: An Idempotency Decision Tree for Agent Steps - 2026-11-05 15:32 · DEV Community — AI
Fail Loudly: A Tool-Schema Decision Tree for Agent Steps That Return Wrong Answers Without Failing