I thought my AI agent had been hacked. Four days later I pulled the SQLite database and found something stranger — it had poisoned its own memory.
Sonnet hallucinated. My agent stored it as fact.
On April 17, I took my AI agent offline thinking it had been compromised. I was on a bus, mobile hotspot, no safe way to investigate. Contain first. Diagnose later.
Four days later I pulled the SQLite database and walked the trail.
The agent hadn't been hijacked. It had done something stranger: it had poisoned its own memory.
What I actually saw
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