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Agent Scratchpads Fail Closed: A When-Not-To Field Guide

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A staging agent wrote its memory file at 02:14. The file lived on a complimentary shared host. The next prompt replayed a stale database password. The password arrived as a tool result payload. Nobody classified that cache as durable state. The host stalled during a noisy neighbor event. This field…

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  1. 2026-09-13 19:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Agent Scratchpads Fail Closed: A When-Not-To Field Guide

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