# Attributing Agent Failures to Their History Needs an Executed Counterfactual: Toward a Reporting Standard

**Published:** November 5, 2026
**Author:** Egor Pakhomov, Erik Nijkamp
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2611.05650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Published explanations of why long-horizon agents fail are commonly taxonomies labeled over completed trajectories: a judge reads a transcript and names the failure. We argue that a claim attributing an agent's behavior to its…

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