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Your Agent Says "Done." It Did Nothing. — The Description-as-Execution Bug in LLM Agents

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Your Agent Says "Done." It Did Nothing. Every LLM agent builder will hit this failure mode eventually: the agent writes "I've completed the translation" — and never called the translation tool. The plan was described, the completion was asserted, the execution never happened. We call it description…

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  1. 2026-10-02 01:17 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Agent Says "Done." It Did Nothing. — The Description-as-Execution Bug in LLM Agents

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