Rescue a Code Review Agent Before It Drifts
Decide how to recover a code-review agent that is losing track of rules and prior decisions.
Agent drift The agent is still busy, but less of its effort is now directed at the live threat model. A long transcript without state management makes solved work compete with unsolved work. Recovery model Promote state, demote transcript Keep the notebook the agent needs now: current objective, prohibited areas, open risks, and resolved branches. Common trap Preserve every turn and assume the right facts will stay salient. Shorter active context, fewer repeated checks, safer next moves. Working memory should describe the present state of the task, not the full history of the task. Choose the recovery artifact Step 1…
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