Developer tests nudge prompts to stop agents stalling early

Developer willcb evaluated a nudge mechanism on a batch of old follow-up tasks and found it effectively fixes agents that freeze after announcing their plans; he has already adopted it in daily use.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-19 · 2 related posts

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