Dissonance and consonance as a control plane for keeping long-horizon agents aligned
GlenBradley · x · 2026-09-21
Using an AP-17 wireless access point example, Glen Bradley shows how an agent's "Done" collapses distinct facts: the controller accepted a VLAN change, but the config may not have applied, auth/DHCP/DNS may still be broken, or the fix broke guest isolation. He argues the evaluation sequence should be proposal → accepted → verified state, and proposes using dissonance/consonance between diverging world models as a control plane to keep long-horizon agents aligned.
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