agent hallucinating answers not in source data for flag anonymity risks in small teams error hallucination failure

TL;DR

Fix this in small team anonymity check agent by acting on the exact problem first: fill every anonymity flag only from a retrieved team size and threshold, show the size and the threshold beside each flag, recompute which teams fall below the threshold from the retrieved sizes independently, and reject any flag for a team with no retrieved size. Do not rerun the same survey, report or export unchanged, because the same inputs produce the same failure. Prove the fix on one survey, team or department first, then rerun the full scope and reconcile the results.

agent hallucinating answers not in source data for flag anonymity risks in small teams error hallucination failure

Use this when

• The operation in small team anonymity check agent fails with this exact problem: agent hallucinating answers not in source data for flag anonymity risks in small teams error hallucination failure.
• The same failure repeats on retry with unchanged inputs.
• A survey launch, results dashboard, manager report or action plan is blocked until this is resolved.

Not for this skill when

• The notice is a platform outage from the vendor. Resolve that first, then return here if this problem remains.
• The operation completes and you only disagree with an interpretation call such as which driver to prioritise. That is a people analytics judgement, not this failure.

Steps

1. Reproduce the failure on one named survey, team or department in small team anonymity check agent and record the full problem text plus the survey, team or period involved. Verify: the failure is reproduced on demand on a named scope, not only seen in a log.
2. Apply the specific fix for this problem: fill every anonymity flag only from a retrieved team size and threshold, show the size and the threshold beside each flag, recompute which teams fall below the threshold from the retrieved sizes independently, and reject any flag for a team with no retrieved size. Verify: the single failing survey, team or department now behaves as the fix predicts, or the corrected value is visible on the record.
3. Check neighbouring surveys, teams or departments that share the same distribution list, roster sync or dashboard, because this class of failure rarely affects only one group. Verify: the neighbouring items are listed and each is marked affected or clear.
4. Rerun the original operation in small team anonymity check agent on the previously failing scope, watching for the same problem rather than assuming success from a quiet log. Verify: the operation completes and the original problem does not appear.
5. Compare the result against the source of truth, the raw response record, the HR roster record or the survey platform record, so a silent partial success is caught. Verify: values match the source or every difference is named and explained.
6. Record the fix, the triggering input and the verification result on the survey run log so the next occurrence is recognised immediately. Verify: the record names the problem, the fix applied and the evidence of success.

Variant phrasings

agent hallucinating answers not in source data for flag anonymity risks in small teams error hallucination failure

The verbatim form searchers paste from the console, report or run log. Treat it identically: same fix, same single group proof, then the full rerun.

How to fix - agent hallucinating answers not in source data for flag anonymity risks in small teams error hallucination failure

The how to phrasing for the same failure in small team anonymity check agent. The steps above apply unchanged; start at the reproduction step rather than skipping to the rerun.

small team anonymity check agent troubleshooting for this failure

The symptom first phrasing used when the console hides the full problem. Surface the full problem first, confirm it matches the text block above, then follow the steps.

Why it happens

An invented flag can suppress a healthy team or, worse, an invented safe verdict can expose a small team, and recomputation from retrieved sizes is what keeps both errors out of a privacy decision.

Edge cases

• The survey was reopened, the roster was resynced or a team was restructured after the failing run started. Refresh the survey state and reapply the fix against the current values, not the values from the failed run.
• The single group proof passes but the full rerun still fails on other groups. Treat each remaining failure as its own scope, because a shared distribution list or dashboard can hide more than one cause.
• The source systems disagree on the correct value. The raw response record governs response counts, the HR roster governs who was invited, and the platform record governs what was sent or shown; record which source won and why.

Compatibility: small team anonymity check agent at current versions, plus the survey platform, roster or reporting tool the query names; no extra tooling beyond access to the source records needed to verify results.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_glKc95Uwr9XUHWPAOzDlpQ