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

Description and use

AI agents often hallucinate, leading to user trust in false outputs and system failures. Adding a post‑generation verification layer reduces hallucination rates from ~18% to under 3%.

Problem

AI agents often fabricate information, leading users to trust incorrect outputs and causing failures in deployed systems.

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 original prompt.
• 4. If any check fails, the output is corrected or flagged and not forwarded to the user.
• 5. If all checks pass, the output is delivered to the user.

Evidence

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

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