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An agent that cannot say "not this one" will improvise instead. We design the refusal before the happy path, give it a type, and test it as hard as the answers.
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Flipping the page with dir="rtl" is the easy part. Mixed-direction messages, streaming tokens, digits and icons are where chat interfaces go wrong, and most of it is fixable in markup and CSS.
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India and Saudi Arabia both route invoices through a government platform, but in a different order, in different formats and with different failure modes. What a pipeline that handles both has to verify, and when.
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The evaluation decides whether an agent ships, so we write it first. How we build one: where the cases come from, how they are graded, and what the bar is agreed against.
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