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A mandated clarifying-question rule fired on 0 of 4 arms. Removing the broader rule it lost to restored it on 4 of 4. Why structure beats instruction, measured.
The default fix for an agent that forgets is to put more in the prompt. It works until it doesn't, and the way it fails is quiet: unconditional context that costs every turn and gets less relevant as it grows.
Two frontier labs and two research papers reached the same conclusion by 2026: the AI instructions you wrote to improve output are now quietly making it worse.
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