This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition
What I Built
I told an agent Never write directly to the database. A long session later, context window full, it wrote directly to the database. The rule loading mark was still sitting in the prompt. The model had just stopped weighting and attending to it.
It's an invisible failure. No error is being thrown. The task comes back subtly wrong, and the rule reads perfectly fine when you go back and check it. I wanted to make it visible, so I built an interactive field you can drag around.
Every rule you write for an agent is a hill. Its height is how well the rule is written: a directive-led, backtick-anchored rule stands tall, a hedged and vague one sits low. Then you raise the water. The water is context load. As it rises the low rules go under first, in order of how well they were written. The weak ones drown while you watch.
