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Silent behavioral regression refers to the phenomenon where an Agent begins choosing slightly worse execution paths, falling into more loops, or misreading tool return results, yet the system throws no exceptions—it simply consumes more tokens and produces lower-quality outputs silently.
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9/12/2026
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