How do you verify an AI agent's action actually succeeded in production?
sixeyedhere · reddit · 2026-10-29
A developer probes a core reliability problem in agentic workflows: after an agent's tool call returns success, how do you prove the intended change actually happened? Failure modes include:
- Tool reports success but the expected record is missing
- Retried requests creating duplicates
- Partially completed operations
- The agent declaring completion before the backend reaches the expected state
The poster asks teams shipping agents in production how they test these scenarios, which tools and practices they rely on, what still needs manual checking, and whether this is a real production gap or already handled by existing infrastructure.
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