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Agents2026-08-21 · source-backed
The failure they target is specific and under-discussed: a cached error page or a negative price returns in the expected schema and gets consumed as fact, unlike a timeout the agent can see. Outcome Monitors check results against contracts mined from task-disjoint traces or public schemas, and on violation preserve the result and issue a nonbinding receipt naming the violated property plus the recovery tools available. arXiv Gains hold across four models in two provider families with replication in a third, and tau-bench retail improves 12 to 14 points. The ablation is the useful part: removing the recovery-tool list erases the gain entirely and restoring it brings it back. Telling the agent something broke does nothing. Telling it what to do next is the whole mechanism.
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Both cover Gains; reported by the same outlet (arxiv.org); overlapping topics (against, back).
Shared entity: Gains / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Both cover Gains; reported by the same outlet (arxiv.org); overlapping topics (agent, gain).
Both cover Gains; reported by the same outlet (arxiv.org); overlapping topics (agent, gain).
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