Agent Reliability

The Agentic AI Foundation went from three hosted projects to ten in its first year, and OpenAI contributed the multi-provider request format. Four preprints from 3 and 4 November put numbers on what the gaps between those projects still cost.

OpenTelemetry evicted every gen_ai convention from core in June, and the repository that inherited them has never cut a release: 278 stability markers, all development, a manifest still declaring 1.42.0-dev. Two new datasets show what that costs, including one where 48.1% of transcript bytes fall outside a 2 MiB replay bound.

Six preprints from October and November measured agent reliability instead of asserting it. Chained coding tasks drop from 95% completion to 51%, 11.5% of tool calls return success without doing the work, and swapping durable-execution hosts changed nothing.