Lead · Beginners Guide
Without any memory mitigation, an agent's rule-compliance rate drops from 73% at turn 5 to 33% at turn 16 — it won't tell you it forgot, it'll just start doing the wrong thing.
Grace Patel
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August 03, 2026
At the start of a conversation, you tell an agent "don't auto-send emails, let me review the draft first." It follows the rule for the first several turns, but by turn fifteen or so, it suddenly starts sending automatically, as if it never heard the instruction at all. This isn't the agent suddenly "breaking" — it's a technical phenomenon with a name and quantified research behind it. Without...