Simple fix for agents treating other agents' decisions as sacrosanct: demand verbatim quotes
menhguin · x · 2026-10-09
Agents can't tell human decisions from agent decisions
- @habibislop notes that hours into a project, coding agents start treating earlier agents' decisions as sacrosanct — and no amount of ADRs, planning docs, invariants, or agents.md files stops it.
- @menhguin's workaround: instruct agents to always fully quote your design decisions and explanations verbatim, never paraphrasing. This preserves design choices essentially indefinitely.
Related event: Make Agents Cite Your Design Rationale to Preserve Intent(3 posts)→
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