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Hardening an AI coding agent: 9 failures and fixes
Univoco's coding agent, built on retrieval-augmented generation, failed in unexpected ways when searching private docs. Fixes included filename matching, loop detection, query inflation, and self-auditing lookups. The author details each failure and the code that resolved it.
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