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Chain-of-Self-Questioning: How Agents Decide When to Abstain Instead of Hallucinate
Community description: CoSQ is a prompt-only framework that makes LLM answer commitment conditional on explicit information checks, no fine-tuning required.
Dev.to | Sep 16, 2026 | mech.app
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In financial workflows, a wrong answer costs money. The agent evaluates its own information state before committing to an answer. Expects format: "Assessment: YES (confidence: 0. 92)" or "Assessment: NO (confidence: 0. 45)" CoSQ-wrapped agent response with explicit abstention logic.
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