Key takeaways
A new metric, Pass^k, measures an agent's consistency by checking if it succeeds on all k runs of a task, addressing a gap in standard evaluation metrics.
- A 24.4-point consistency gap exists between average and consistent task success rates for a ReAct agent.
- The consistency gap is due to flat probability distributions in agent decisions, making them vulnerable to small perturbations.
- Consistency guidelines are introduced to address this gap, using a two-stage pipeline with a new source signal.
- The guidelines are built on top of the Consistency Analyzer diagnostic tool and are part of the ALTK-Evolve system.
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The Metric Almost Nobody Reports Why Agents Flip: Sharp Decisions vs. Flat Ones Diagnose, Then Fix Results: Reducing the Gap Without Losing Accuracy The guidelines generalize — they aren't patching one trajectory If You're Shipping an Agent Try It Appendix: Understanding the Metrics Linked artifacts / references Your agent works in rehearsal, but during the live demo, it takes a different path and fails the same task.
That is embarrassing onstage. In production, it is a reliability problem: a workflow that succeeded once may fail the next time a user makes the same request. For mission-critical work, such as reconciling a financial transaction or checking a contract for an obligation, that can be a showstopper.
