When Can You Trust an Agent's Own Verifier? Stress-Testing Counterfactual Rationale Verification Under Search Pressure and Oracle Access

arXiv:2610.22779 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: 17 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables. Accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop "Who Verifies the Agents? Toward Reliable Agent Development"

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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