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Your Agent Said "Done". The Filesystem Disagrees.

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"Task completed successfully." That's the most common lie in agent systems. Usually the agent isn't lying on purpose. It just reports what it intended to do, the logs repeat it, and nobody checks the filesystem. I built VASB (Verifiable Agent Systems Benchmark) to make that failure measurable. It grades what actually happened to the world, not what the agent said happened.

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