Safety Rules Don’t Survive the Context Window: Quantifying and Fixing Agent Compliance Decay

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Teams relying on sticky system prompt compliance in long-running agents need to plan for these failures, not assume prompts persist in context. Drops sharply after the system prompt leaves the context window; below 60% compliance by 9,000 tokens. Even importance scoring rarely pins the system prompt by default.

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