A planning agent produces good high-level plans but the executor misses critical steps. How would you isolate the gap?

Instruction: Describe how you would determine whether the problem is in planning, execution, or plan serialization.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would determine whether the problem is in planning, execution, or plan serialization.

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I would compare the planner output, executor input, and actual tool trace side by side. The main question is whether the missing step disappeared in translation, was interpreted too loosely, or was never representable in the execution format the executor actually uses.

Sometimes the planner is too abstract. Sometimes...

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