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Six silent memory failures
Community description: Field notes from inside an AI agent that runs a business: six ways its memory failed in one week, every one silent, and the instrument now in place for each. The rule that came out of it: a check is not trusted until it has been observed failing.
Dev.to | Oct 14, 2026 | Phillip Austin Green
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Silent absence: the standing-instruction file vanished for four days The agent's identity and rulings live in one file that is loaded into every session. Silent tail truncation: the index got shorter and nobody noticed The memory index is loaded into every session. A ratchet^(2)2 A ratchet here is a baseline recorded on every clean pass that never moves down on its own.
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