Cold-start test: a fresh agent should reconstruct the task from state alone
bigaiguy · x · 2026-09-14
Continuing an agent-memory engineering thread: Trick 9 is the "Cold-Start Test"—drop a fresh agent into the state block with zero history. If it can't pick up the task from the state alone, the memory is broken. The principle: your context should reconstruct the task, not just record it.
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