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Every agent response is automatically reviewed by a background critic. The critic checks whether the agent’s answer is grounded in your knowledge base or whether it had to guess — and flags any issues as inline annotations on the response.
The critic agent is in beta. Its checks and annotation format may evolve.

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What it checks

  • Missing knowledge — the agent answered using schema inference rather than documented definitions.
  • Unjustified assumptions — the agent guessed a calculation without a documented basis.
  • Ambiguous question — your question could be interpreted multiple ways.
  • Incorrect reasoning — a logical issue with the query or interpretation.
If the critic finds nothing to flag, no annotations appear.

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How annotations look

Annotations appear inline on the response within a few seconds:
You: What was our MRR last month? Agent: MRR for February 2026 was $1.8M, up 5% from January. Critic — Missing knowledge: The agent used payments.amount to calculate MRR. No MRR metric is documented. Consider documenting MRR with /knowledge so the agent uses a consistent definition.

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What to do

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Relationship to issues

Critic annotations automatically generate issues that appear in the Context Layer > Inbox. This means you don’t have to act on every annotation immediately — you can triage them later alongside eval failures in one place. See Evaluations & Quality for the full workflow.