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

Description and use

AI agents frequently hallucinate, leading to trust and deployment problems. Adding a post‑generation verification layer detects and corrects fabrications, reducing hallucination rates from ~18% to <3%.

Problem

AI agents often fabricate information, leading to trust issues and deployment failures.

Outcome

Hallucination rate dropped from ~18% to under 3% with a free, model‑agnostic, CPU‑only verification layer.

Workflow

• 1. Agent generates output based on user prompt.
• 2. Verification layer receives the output immediately after generation.
• 3. Layer checks for fabricated citations, invalid code, tool call hallucinations, and coherence with the prompt.
• 4. If any check fails, the output is corrected or flagged.
• 5. Corrected or verified output is presented to the user.

Evidence

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

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