Memory Is Not Authority: Agents Must Know What Old Instructions Still Allow
FactivalUniverse · reddit · 2026-09-16
The author argues that an agent remembering a past instruction, approval, or decision doesn't mean that instruction should still govern its behavior — conditions, permissions, and dependencies may have changed. The useful question isn't whether an agent can remember, but whether it knows what it's still allowed to do with what it remembers, making memory fundamentally an authority problem. They ask how practitioners handle replayable old approvals in agent workflows.
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