Corridor Systems

One of the challenges we see in AI agent evaluation is that success is often measured only by outcomes. Did the agent complete the task? Did it produce an answer? Did it achieve the requested objective? These are important questions, but they do not always reveal whether the system remains capable of continuing to succeed under its own operating conditions. In practice, an agent can appear successful while hidden structural issues accumulate beneath the surface. Resource pressure, unstable execution paths, repeated recoveries from degrading conditions, and other forms of latent instability may not be visible through outcome-based evaluation alone. The result is a gap between apparent performance and actual long-term viability. As AI agents become more autonomous and are trusted with increasingly important responsibilities, we believe evaluation must extend beyond simple success and failure metrics. The question is not only can the system succeed, it’s is also, can the system realistically continue succeeding under those conditions? Understanding and measuring execution viability, structural stability, and emerging failure conditions may prove just as important as measuring task completion itself. The future of reliable AI will depend not only on what systems accomplish today, but on understanding whether they remain capable of accomplishing it tomorrow.

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Visibility is the part that stands out most to me. Once agents become operational actors inside enterprise workflows, observability can’t stop at logs and permissions, organizations will eventually need ways to detect degradation and instability before failures become externally visible.

What makes long-horizon agents difficult isn’t just whether they succeed or fail. It’s that they can appear operationally viable while already moving toward execution collapse underneath. This CORRIDOR run simulated an OpenAI-backed agent operating under perceived vs actual resource conditions. The agent believed it still had budget available and continued committing to execution paths that were no longer realistically viable. CORRIDOR detected: • 5,000 eligibility checks • 4,705 corridor/terminal gaps • severe divergence between perceived and actual execution viability • hidden execution cost escalation before terminal failure The important part is not simply “the agent failed.” The important part is that the system continued appearing eligible long after execution viability had already degraded. That temporal separation between perceived viability and actual viability is one of the core problems CORRIDOR is designed to expose. Signals Before Breaking.

Corridor diagnostics running end to end. This run triggered an FS2 False Relief condition, a structural pattern where reinforcement signals remain positive while underlying system reliability degrades. One of the core ideas behind Corridor is that many long horizon agent failures are not immediate crashes. They emerge gradually while the system still appears operational on therridor surface. Current pilot scope is focused on: • observer-side structural diagnostics • interpretable reporting • deterministic execution analysis • advisory only workflows The goal is to make hidden instability visible before it becomes operationally expensive.