Context Pollution in Multi-Step Agents
RhubarbLarge2747 · reddit · 2026-07-08
While testing multi-step agent workflows, the author found that hallucinations in Step 3 aren't primarily the model's fault. Instead, raw scraped data from Step 1 lingers in the context, causing Step 3 to treat this "dirty data" as fact.
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