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Agents do not crash, they drift

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Traditional testing assumes determinism. Agent systems break that assumption, so reliability has to be designed rather than asserted.

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An agent that fails loudly is a good day. The expensive failures are the quiet ones: a confidently wrong source, a loop that costs money, a slow degradation after an index refresh.

Scoring per stage instead of per answer is what makes these debuggable, because it tells you which part of the system moved.

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