Self-evolving AI agents making irreversible changes
AccomplishedLeg1508 · reddit · 2026-09-02
As agents become more autonomous, they modify their own prompts, tools, middleware, routing, and execution harnesses. The core question: what happens when an agent makes a useful change but cannot safely undo it?
In work on EvoUndo, across 600 unseen tasks, 197 capability-improving mutations failed recoverability verification. Conventional repair recovered 0/197 under the original representation.
Experiments suggest bottlenecks are state grounding and recovery-language expressivity. The idea is simple: if an agent makes persistent changes, forward improvement isn't enough; the system must also verify safe recovery across different states.
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