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How do you check that an agent actually did what it says it did?

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A while ago I gave a model a boring job inside an agent harness: sort eight files into subfolders by type. It reported success in 20 seconds. Not one file had moved. Since then I don't grade an agent on its final message. I look at whatever the task was supposed to change, like the folder, the tabl…

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  1. 2026-10-05 02:30 · DEV Community — AI
    How do you check that an agent actually did what it says it did?

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