{"found":true,"collection":"failure_modes","library_url":"https://www.grokbotdb.com/library/fm.confident-slightly-wrong-step","generated":"2026-09-06T05:32:11Z","citation":["Quote the record id and its source_url (or provenance if there is no URL).","Include last_verified or observed_at when present. Do not present an old date as current.","If tier is community and confidence is low, say so. Do not launder it into a fact.","If the database does not hold the answer, say that. Do not invent Grok Bot product claims.","Contradictions are data: when conflicts_with is present, report both records rather than picking a favourite.","Deprecated and removed records stay visible. They are history, not current guidance."],"record":{"id":"fm.confident-slightly-wrong-step","title":"The agent acts confidently on a step it got slightly wrong and nothing catches it until downstream","symptom":"Output is plausible and internally consistent but wrong in a specific field. Documented instances: a course level returned as Beginner where the canonical page said Basic; a dual duration field where the agent treated an upper bound as a fixed total; a prerequisite check silently absent from a skill.","cause":"The agent paraphrases rather than copying, and infers a single value where a source prints two.","detection":"Only by diffing against the canonical source. The prerequisite gap surfaced only when the skill was tested against a different input than the one it was built on.","fix":"Instruct the agent to reopen the page and copy printed labels verbatim rather than normalising them. Preserve every printed value where a source shows more than one. Test each skill against a second, different goal before scheduling it. Do not save a process until the manual version works, or the skill will just repeat the same problem.","severity":"medium","source_id":"src.tp.datacamp.tutorial","source_url":"https://www.datacamp.com/tutorial/grok-bot-tutorial","confidence":"high","first_seen":"2026-09-03","last_verified":"2026-09-03"}}