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Your Agent Didn't Do the Thing — It Just Said It Did. How We Fixed "Description as Execution" with an Evidence Gate.

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Your Agent Didn't Do the Thing — It Just Said It Did Here's a failure mode we've hit repeatedly while running autonomous LLM agents in production, and it's nastier than hallucinated facts: hallucinated actions . Our agent wrote, in a single turn: "I've translated the file and saved it to the output…

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  1. 2026-09-29 23:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Agent Didn't Do the Thing — It Just Said It Did. How We Fixed "Description as Execution" with an Evidence Gate.

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