Knowledge-gated verifiable tasks isolate whether LLM agents lack knowledge or competence
Hanlin Tian · hf · 2026-09-03
A new protocol separates task instructions from private convention artefacts to explicitly test LLM agents' dependence on hidden knowledge, disentangling "ignorance" from "incompetence".
Calibration tasks validate the design: agent performance drops to near zero without access to the hidden knowledge, showing the protocol cleanly isolates the knowledge factor. Useful for agent evaluation design.
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