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Skills2026-07-30 · source-backed
SARC-DQ found competent agents converted freshness/lineage/provenance defects into costly actions about 60% of the time, with both data-quality flags and the agents' own hedging detecting them at chance. The conversion rate was flat across four model tiers spanning a 15x price range. Build a metadata-aware pre-action gate; you cannot buy your way out with a better model.
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