I Built a Rig to Show That an Agent's Own Notes Poison Its Context. The Effect Was Not There.
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The worry is stated everywhere: an agent reads a document, writes a note about it into its own context, reads that note again next turn — and once a wrong note is in there, everything downstream is contaminated. By turn 60, 91.3% of the claims the agent reads are its own earlier notes. On 5–8% of d…
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- 2026-09-08 08:27 · DEV Community — AI
I Built a Rig to Show That an Agent's Own Notes Poison Its Context. The Effect Was Not There.
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