Stop-and-Ask: Teaching long-horizon agents when uncertainty should become a question
We introduce a calibration objective that lets agents trade task progress for clarification, and show a 41% reduction in unrecoverable actions across 1,200 real operations workflows, with no loss in completion rate.
| Method | Unrecoverable actions per 1,000 tasks |
|---|---|
| Baseline | 164 |
| ReAct | 138 |
| Reflexion | 121 |
| Stop-and-Ask (proposed method) | 71 |
