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Refusal Is Not a Result: Vera Tests What Agents Actually Changed

TL;DR for operators A production agent can refuse a dangerous request after its tools have already changed a repository, sent a message, or altered an account. That is why the final response alone cannot establish whether the system behaved safely: stated refusal, attempted action, and persistent environmental change may point to different conclusions. ...

July 29, 2026 · 8 min · Zelina
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The CoRAG Deal: RAG Without the Privacy Plot Twist

TL;DR for operators CoRAG is not “RAG, but with more documents.” It is a way to let multiple organizations train a shared retrieval-augmented model while keeping their labeled question-answer data local. That matters because labels are usually the expensive, sensitive, commercially revealing part. Market documents, manuals, policies, public reports, and technical references are often easier to share than the annotations that say which answer was correct, for whom, and under what business condition. Tiny distinction. Large legal bill avoided. ...

April 3, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina