Agents Fail From Low Expectations, Not High Constraints: Define Refusal and Stop Rules
KarlMuth · x · 2026-09-03
- The author argues agents fail not from high constraints but from low expectations: elucidate refusal conditions and stop rules, along with expected outcomes.
- Both reasoning and action require guidance; recommended reading is the ReAct paper by Shunyu Yao et al., which interleaves reasoning traces and actions to reduce hallucination and error propagation.
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