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Agents2026-07-12 · source-backed
The failure mode is a well-formed but policy-forbidden call, cancel a booking, change a passenger count, that neither the tool nor the agent's self-report flags (arXiv). In the airline domain tested, the fix wasn't more reasoning. It was cheap, read-only deterministic gates that check the state transition against domain policy before the write commits. Wrap high-stakes tool calls in explicit precondition checks. Don't trust the model to police itself.
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