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Detect AI agent hallucinations without labeled data. Zero-shot LSC detection, claim decomposition, and real-time guardrails. Python code included. Your AI agent returns confident answers. Half of them are fabricated. Standard metrics say everything's fine. This is the silent failure problem: agents that hallucinate facts, drift into unsafe behavior, and pass binary pass/fail tests. Research shows binary metrics miss 65-93% of safety issues (AgentDrift, March 2026). You need detection techniqu...

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