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Everything tagged "Reliability": 3 pieces across articles and the journal.
The unit of agentic work has moved from the prompt to the loop. A working definition, an anatomy of what a loop is made of, and the one principle that separates loops you can trust from agents that agree with themselves.
Running a coding agent unattended is tempting and mostly a trap. The thing that makes it safe isn't a better prompt. It's an external, deterministic gate the model cannot talk its way past. Here is the principle, a working pipeline that embodies it, and the failure modes that matter.
When an agent system misbehaves, the instinct is to add more instructions. Usually the real fix is structural: explicit states, hard guards, and small tools with narrow contracts. Reliability is an architecture decision, not a prompting one.