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Equation 26 · Part 1 · Measuring AI Agent Reliability: What the Evidence Actually Supports

Symbol k

k^k
kk

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k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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One. Vendor system cards and agent-benchmark leaderboards will increasingly report an explicit reliability statistic — a pass ^k -style figure or a confidence interval — alongside a headline pass@1 or pass@k number, because the gap between the two is now well documented rather than speculative. Disconfirmed if major leaderboards in 2029 still report a single unqualified success rate with no repeated-trial or uncertainty disclosure.

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