Yesterday one of my agents reported back incorrectly. Everythign was set up corr
By Brett Bohannon · June 18, 2026 · Curated by George's Blog
Yesterday one of my agents reported back incorrectly. Everythign was set up correctly: plan doc, skills, Helm workflows.
I caught, it didn't do any damage. Here is summary of what happened:
An automated, read-only advertising-monitoring agent produced its daily brief and flagged a top-priority “campaign setup error” across a whole family of campaigns. On review, the operator’s instinct said something was off. A two-minute follow-up confirmed the agent had drawn the right data but the wrong conclusion. The finding was corrected, the saved report and its structured data were updated, and a durable note was added so the agent won’t repeat the mistake.
Net impact: no wrong action was taken (the agent is recommend-only), and the error was caught before it influenced any decision.
Takeaways:
1. Human in the loop is good, at least in the beginning
2. Even if you think you have everting tight - you probably don't
3. You need to know what is going on
What I could have done better:
The agent was looking at the campaign name to make its diagnoses, instead of digging into the actual campaign.
This has since been corrected.