agent/papers/items/2026-2606-09863-from-confident-closing-to-silent-failure-characterizing-false-success-in-llm-age.md

Paper: From Confident Closing to Silent Failure: Characterizing False Success in LLM Agents

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type: paper title: "From Confident Closing to Silent Failure: Characterizing False Success in LLM Agents" authors: Laksh Advani year: 2026 venue: arXiv url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09863 code_url: source: arxiv collected_at: 2026-07-08 published_at: 2026-06-01 updated_at: 2026-06-01 status: queued relevance: high topics:

• agent-evaluation
• coding-agent
• tool-use methods:

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• cs.LG related_concepts:

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collection_score: 14 collection_queries: agent-evaluation

One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

Why Collected

• matched queries: agent-evaluation
• inferred topics: agent-evaluation, coding-agent, tool-use
• arXiv categories: cs.LG
• collection score: 14

Review Checklist

• Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
• Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
• Should it be promoted from queued to skimmed or summarized?

Links

• arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09863