Agent Benchmark: Losing Context in Multi-Step Tasks
carlie_jace · reddit · 2026-08-28
The author highlights a core issue with current AI Agents: the inability to maintain context consistency throughout long workflows. A simple benchmark is proposed: assign a 6-step task (e.g., competitor research, pricing extraction, ignoring enterprise plans, finding gaps, reporting, and deck creation) and check if step 6 respects the constraints from step 2. Most agents perform well initially but lose track of instructions or information in later steps.
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