Planning, Reflection & Reasoning Patterns

Practise and Check

Deliverable

Verified answers: add chain-of-verification to your RAG answer step and measure how many unsupported claims it removes on the golden set.

Assessment

Answer the five Interview questions without notes, then run the lab.

Interview probe

Larkspur's cancellation assistant, a plan-and-execute agent, told a customer their data is kept for 12 months after cancelling. The handbook says 30 days. The trace shows the retention lookup ran. What went wrong, and what do you change?

Common mistakes

• Setting max_iterations with no room for replanning after a wrong result
• Verifying each claim in a call that can still see the draft
• Trusting a majority vote when the samples share a systematic error
• Trusting a self-critic's has_errors verdict without running the code against tests

Related Modules

• T8.2Coding, Computer-Use & Deep Agents
• T8.3Human Approval & Applied Single-Agent Builds