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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 26, 2026

Your agent finished successfully — but what if it finished the wrong task?

A user flags a failure mode worse than an outright error: an agent reports success after completing the wrong task, and the success message hides the mistake. The fix discussed is defining what done looks like before the agent starts, in a form checkable afterward — the exact record, file, or confirmation. If the expected outcome cannot be stated in one sentence, the agent is free to complete something else and call it success.

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