Why Your AI Agent Keeps Gaslighting You (And How to Fix It)

Description and use

AI agents frequently hallucinate, causing deployment errors. Adding a post-output verification layer reduces hallucination rate from ~18% to <3%.

Problem

AI agents often hallucinate, producing fabricated outputs that users trust, leading to errors when deployed.

Outcome

Hallucination rate dropped from ~18% to under 3% with a free, model-agnostic verification layer that runs on CPU.

Workflow

• 1. Agent generates output based on user prompt.
• 2. Verification layer analyzes the output for fabricated citations, invalid code, tool call hallucinations, and prompt coherence.
• 3. If issues are detected, the output is corrected or flagged before delivery to the user.
• 4. User receives verified, accurate information for deployment.

Evidence

Result: hallucination rate dropped from ~18% to under 3%.

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