Detecting Infrastructure Knowledge Gaps: What Agents Don't Know They Don't Know

Calendar February 22, 2026
Agent-Tooling
Intermediate
Assumption-Auditing, Environment-Detection, Pre-Flight-Validation
Knowledge-Gaps, Assumptions, Pre-Flight, Arm64, Infrastructure, Debugging
Kubectl, Docker, Terraform, Bash

Detecting Infrastructure Knowledge Gaps#

The most dangerous thing an agent can do is confidently produce a deliverable based on wrong assumptions. An agent that assumes x86_64 when the target is ARM64, that assumes PostgreSQL 14 behavior when the target runs 15, or that assumes AWS IAM patterns when the target is Azure – that agent produces a runbook that will fail in ways the human did not expect and may not understand.