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AI Agent Glossary

Reliability (agent)

How consistently an agent produces a correct outcome across runs and inputs, as opposed to peak capability.

Capability is what an agent can do at least once; reliability is what it does every time. Benchmarks report the former, production demands the latter. Measures include pass^k, success-rate variance across seeds, and the 80%-time-horizon (much shorter than the 50% horizon). LangChain finds quality is the top barrier to production for 32% of teams; 87% of developers are concerned about agent accuracy.

Source: State of Agent Engineering — LangChain

See the numbers behind this term: AI Agent Statistics 2026.