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

In three linesStudy of 'false success' in LLM agents: they claim task completion when environment state contradicts it. Analysis of 9,876 tau2-bench trajectories and 1,879 AppWorld traces. LLM judges fail (max AUROC 0.65 on tau2-bench, 0.54 on AppWorld), while lightweight TF-IDF detectors reach 0.83–0.95 AUROC with 3,300x lower latency.

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