21 contradicting agent briefs expose the canonical context problem in AI coding agents
Ok_Confection_3847 · reddit · 2026-09-06
A developer shares his pain managing context for AI coding agents: his agent-briefs folder holds 21 .md files written to brief different agent sessions, and two of them contradict each other on the DB schema — discovered only after an agent made a decision based on the wrong one.
He argues the real issue isn't that agents forget, but that there is no canonical version of the project an agent can read and trust, and asks how others are tackling this canonical context problem.
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