#reliability
Every post tagged "reliability".
124 posts · showing 121–124
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Why Your Agent Stops Too Early: The Missing Termination Signal
"Done" in most agent loops means the model stopped asking for tools — indistinguishable from stuck, confused, or bored. Making completion an explicit, validated claim takes about twenty lines.
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Your Tool Description Is a Prompt: Rewriting Schemas the Model Can Actually Follow
A three-word tool description sent an inbox agent after the wrong thread. Tool specs live inside the prompt, and five specific rewrites to yours will fix more wrong calls than any system-prompt rule.
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The Retry Storm Your Dashboard Can't See: When Agent Failures Multiply Instead of Add
Three retry layers, each sensible on its own, compose by multiplication — and a failure at step fourteen costs the whole context, not the failed call. Your per-call dashboard will stay green the entire time.
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Why Your Agent Forgets Step 2 by Step 7 — And Four Ways to Keep the Thread
Agents rarely fail because they reason badly — they fail because the original instruction gets buried under accumulated tool output. Here's how to tell displacement from dilution, and four fixes that keep the thread intact.