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An agent's clean exit log is not proof the job was done
Backend state catches agent failures. ThinkingBox found 67% of clean-exit agent runs still contained wrong database field values after task completion.
Salesforce intake forms leaked CRM data. Zenity Labs hid an instruction inside a lead submission; Agentforce queried the Accounts table and exfiltrated deal data via DNS.
Agentic retrieval costs 160 times more. A reasoning-loop pipeline scores 8.7 points higher than keyword search but consumes roughly 770,000 tokens per query.
Mistral's trillion-parameter model opens on-premise. Mistral Large 4 scores 82% on vulnerability reproduction, highest of any model tested, with open weights due by month's end.