Your planner invents subgoals that were never requested. How would you constrain it without making it brittle?

Instruction: Explain how you would reduce planner overreach while preserving useful autonomy.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Explain how you would reduce planner overreach while preserving useful autonomy.

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I would tighten the planner around objective boundaries and explicit allowed transformations. The planner should be able to decompose the user’s request, but not broaden the mission or optimize for goals that were never delegated.

Practically, that means better task framing, examples of acceptable vs unacceptable decomposition, and...

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