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To make an agent learn from past mistakes, use a feedback-driven adaptation process that analyzes execution errors, identifies root causes like bad assumptions, and applies targeted refinements to persist improvement decisions across sessions.

The best way to diagnose recurring workflow failures is conducting post-task error analysis to identify root causes such as incorrect decisions or tool misuse, enabling feedback-driven adaptation to propose and validate behavioral changes.

Adaptive learning for refining agent skills works through iterative learning loops that observe task outcomes, validate proposed changes, and update skill instructions based on usage data to continuously reduce future errors.

Yes, you can use error analysis to update agent instructions after a failed task by reviewing recent outputs, diagnosing the failure pattern, and proposing one concrete improvement to its behavior or related guidance.

You should avoid a self-improving approach for skill optimization when you lack structured observations of outcomes, as the iterative learning loop requires validating changes and persisting improvement decisions across sessions to function correctly.