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Should an AI agent be allowed to say “I don’t know”?

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Say an agent runs a shell command. We can see that Bash executed, but that doesn’t necessarily tell us what actually happened. It could have read a file, changed code, deleted something, touched infrastructure, or done several of those things at once. If the runtime can’t confidently determine the…

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