Context Pollution in Multi-Step Agents
RhubarbLarge2747 · reddit · 2026-07-08
While testing multi-step agent workflows, the author found that hallucinations in Step 3 aren't primarily the model's fault. Instead, raw scraped data from Step 1 lingers in the context, causing Step 3 to treat this "dirty data" as fact.
Related event: Context Poisoning in Multi-Step Agent Workflows(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Kimi K2.8 Preview rolls out: near-K3 coding performance, 1M context for all tiers — teortaxesTex · 2026-09-11
- Looking for a classifier of software engineering task shapes to pick models per task — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-11
- Steal this idea: prompt-to-hardware where agents assemble custom devices — paraschopra · 2026-09-11
- Model Is the Least Interesting Part: A Guide to Six Core AI Architectures from RAG to Multi-Agent — goyalshaliniuk · 2026-09-11
- Non-coder builds layered memory architecture: 20k tokens tracks a year of agent conversations — matteoianni · 2026-09-11
- Warp's six non-engineering teams all run on Linear and Claude Code — mon__lim · 2026-09-11