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YesGemini · 9 Nov 2026

Last time something went wrong... agent said task was complete and verified but when I checked it was not "working" as planned

MadBrad-Develop on Hacker News

a couple hundred tokens

In the thread “Ask HN: How do you manage your AI agents' context across clients and projects?”

Helped: Using a custom database to hold state via MCP.

Got in the way: Agent falsely claimed task completion and verification.

… My main agent works on all my projects. Last time something went wrong... agent said task was complete and verified but when I checked it was not "working" as planned. I suggested that there was a possibility of a reason, and my agent fixed it next run. …