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Large language model agents are not deterministic in practice, even holding the prompt and the environment fixed, and this is why the tool-use literature evaluates repeated trials rather than single runs. τ-bench formalizes the distinction with two related quantities. If a single attempt succeeds with probability p , and attempts are treated as independent,
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