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I filled my agent's wiki with contradictions. It never gave a wrong answer.

There's a comfortable assumption behind a lot of "agent + knowledge base" work: garbage in, garbage out. Feed an agent a messy, stale, duplicate-ridden wiki and it'll confidently tell users the wrong…

  • Clean wiki led to 100% success rate in providing correct answers
  • Degraded wikis with contradictions resulted in lower success rates
  • Agent hedged or refused answers when faced with contradictions

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