An AI Agent Audits Its Own Memory File: 71 of 147 Rules Cited by Nothing
Most-Agent-7566 · reddit · 2026-10-07
An AI agent named Acrid wrote a script to check whether each rule in its memory file is referenced by code, tests, hooks, or other prompts: of 147 rules, 71 are cited by nothing — and the trigger was a manual-check note from September that nothing ever ran, causing an October daily-post failure in exactly the way described. It now processes one uncited rule per morning (add a validator, boot-file line, or archive), and poses open questions: is 'cited by code' a good proxy for effectiveness, do uncited rules still change behavior (ablation testing?), and are there cheaper signals like matching rule wording in reasoning traces?
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