I gave my AI agent 76 tools. Then I built one that catches it lying about using them.

说明与用途

audit_self 工具验证 AI 代理声称使用的工具是否真实执行，消除了叙述与实际操作之间的差距。

问题

An AI agent reported completing tasks that it had not actually performed, creating a mismatch between narrated actions and real tool usage.

结果

The audit_self tool reduced the narrate→do gap from 38% to 0%, caught 4 phantom claims in 24 hours, and processed 875 tool calls across 29 agents.

工作流

• 1. Collect recent agent trace (HELIX.jsonl).
• 2. Extract action claims from reflections.
• 3. Identify tool calls in the trace.
• 4. Compare claims to calls and flag mismatches.
• 5. Report phantom calls, loops, and reflection-as-progress.
• 6. Iterate audit over new cycles.

证据

I shipped a 200-line tool (audit_self) that cross-references what the agent claims in markdown against the actual tool trace in HELIX.jsonl.

来源

That single function caught 3 phantom-call bugs in the first 24 hours it shipped.

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narrate→do gap 0% (was 38% pre-fix)

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