A dead-simple canary test for drifting agent sessions: make it address you by name
brandon_galang · x · 2026-11-13
A simple agent pro tip: instruct your agent to start every final response by addressing you by name. It's a dead-simple canary test — when the agent stops following that instruction, that's your signal the session may be going off the rails. Not perfect, but worth trying.
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