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Agent verification guards against unverified tool claims

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 28056 · agent

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8 open items. Fix merged in #50009. Check it covers your case.

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6open issues
2open PRs
10items grouped
Known?
Yes. 10 related items grouped here, 0 issues already closed.
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A fix was merged to main in PR #50009. Check it covers your case. No release data is tracked.
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Still open
6 issues and 2 PRs.

These items address a pattern where the agent asserts success or factual conclusions after tool failures or without verifying external state. The work spans detection, prompting guidance, runtime guards, and quality gates to prevent unsupported completion claims.

Open issues6

  • Issue#28056Add in-run quality gates with bounded retry for cron/agent runs
  • Issue#45577CLI/runtime: block unsupported 'STATUS: DONE / verified / deployed' summaries after non-executing tool turns
  • Issue#48214LLM overconfidence on factual assertions — agent answers from memory instead of verifying system state
  • Issue#53072Agent may claim GitHub repo creation/push succeeded after tool failures without verification
  • Issue#54722Agent can report verified success or factual conclusions after failed or unverified tool evidence
  • Issue#58196[Feature]: Verification enforcement -- verify-before-claim guidance + unsupported-completion-claim detector

Open PRs2

  • PR#53388fix(agent): flag unverified external state after tool failures
  • PR#54738fix(agent): add generic tool-verifier footer for unverified tool failures

Fixes on record

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  • #50009 fix(agent): guard finalize_turn cleanup chain so it never drops the response

    merged to main

    files: agent/turn_finalizer.py, tests/agent/test_turn_finalizer_cleanup_guard.py

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: PR volume cleanup 1

  • #45629 fix(agent): guard unsupported completion claims · PR volume cleanup
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Merged PRs
#50009
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1 PR closed without merging
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21 Jun 2026

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