Advanced & Troubleshooting
See Exactly Why Your AI Agent Didn't Reply
An AI agent completed the task and never replied. Broken, confused, or deliberately staying quiet? Rather than guessing, this walkthrough opens Carly and reviews what actually happened. Carly records every action an agent takes along with the reasoning behind each decision, so the original email conversation and the scheduled reminder are both there to inspect, and the log shows the agent concluded a reply was not necessary. The second half changes that behavior. Carly keeps its instructions in an editable preferences document, so adding a rule that requires a confirmation whenever an action completes is a matter of editing the preferences directly or emailing Carly and asking it to update its own instructions. This is the part that matters once agents are handling email, calendars, reminders and recurring business work: an assistant should not be a black box. You should be able to inspect what it did, understand why, and correct it without rebuilding the automation.
Step by step
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Notice the gap between done and told
The task completed but no reply arrived. That is the moment to check the record rather than assume the agent is broken or guess at what it was thinking.
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Open the original conversation
Start from the email thread that kicked things off. It anchors the timeline, so you can line up what you asked against what the agent actually did.
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Inspect the scheduled reminder
Check the task or reminder the agent created. This tells you whether it understood the request in the first place, before you go looking at why it stayed silent.
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Read the agent's reasoning
Carly logs every action with the reasoning behind it. Here the log shows it decided a reply was not necessary, which is a judgment call rather than a failure.
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Open the preferences document
Carly's instructions live in an editable preferences document. This is where behavior is set, so it is where a decision like this one gets corrected.
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Add a rule that requires confirmation
Write a rule saying to confirm whenever an action is completed. The next run reports back instead of finishing quietly.
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Or just email Carly and ask
You do not have to edit the document by hand. Email Carly describing the behavior you want and it updates its own instructions.
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