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Michael Brenndoerfer

Planning › Visualizations

Michael BrenndoerferJanuary 1, 20264 min read

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Chapter 370Planning › Visualizations

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Visualization

Stacked bar chart of step outcomes across 30 planning trials showing mostly first-pass completions. — Step outcomes across 30 simulated planning trials. Each bar shows the number of steps that completed on the first attempt (green), required retries (orange), or failed permanently (red). The retry mechanism resolves most transient tool failures, leaving final failure rates close to zero across most trials.

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CDF curve of total tool call attempts per trial showing median near 5 to 6 attempts. — Cumulative distribution of total tool call attempts per planning trial. Most trials require 5 to 6 attempts for the 5-step climate plan (one per step), with the right tail reflecting trials where one or more steps needed retries before succeeding.

Sorted bar chart of first-pass completion rates across 30 trials showing mostly high rates. — First-pass completion rates across 30 planning trials sorted from lowest to highest. The distribution shows that most trials achieve 80 to 100 percent first-pass completion, with a minority experiencing multiple concurrent failures that illustrate the tail risk in plan execution.

The step-outcomes chart reveals that the majority of plan executions complete cleanly in a single pass, with occasional retries accounting for a small fraction of additional calls. The CDF of attempts shows the typical plan requires between 5 and 7 total tool invocations for a 5-step plan, with the extra calls reflecting retry overhead.