A plan is cheap until a result is wrong.
One Larkspur Cloud question, three agents from lesson 25.1: ReAct, a fixed plan, and a plan that checks every step and replans. Each lookup searches the handbook. Mark a lookup whose first search returns the wrong chunk and watch which agent notices, and what noticing costs.
Three agents, one question
Counted per run
| Agent | LLM calls | Searches | Tokens read | Answer |
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Call ledger
Every call, in order
| # | Call | Reads or returns | Tokens read |
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The prompts are the notebooks' own templates (01a and 01b), filled with this question and the handbook chunks. The models are scripted: the planner lists the lookups, the evaluator accepts a result only when it is the right chunk, the replanner rewrites the failed lookup once and keeps the rest, and ReAct is shown at its best, searching again after every wrong chunk. Tokens are prompt text at four characters per token; tool schemas are not counted.