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Who Verifies the Tools? How Warped Formatters Mislead Agents and Their Verifiers, William Jeffries
Who Verifies the Tools? How Warped Formatters Mislead Agents and Their Verifiers, William Jeffries
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Who Verifies the Tools? How Warped Formatters Mislead Agents and Their Verifiers, William Jeffries
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- supportsA correct retrieval result can mislead both an agent and its verifier: The formatter study reports a production research RAG system in which correct searches omitted critical result caps or identifier namespaces from displayed tool text, so both the downstream agent and its verifier could accept unsupported answers.
Abstract, production RAG example, formatter omissions and verifier experiment
- supportsA correct retrieval result can mislead both an agent and its verifier: The paper documents a production RAG research system with technically correct retrieval operations but misleading printed descriptions, and reports a controlled verifier comparison in which 90 of 90 incorrect responses accepted under one formatter were rejected when relevant missing information was disclosed.
Abstract; production Pilsudski Institute RAG system; formatter comparisons and verifier tests