ai-automation-consultant / Failure Lab
Agent Context Truncation
Mid-task compaction drops a key acceptance criterion and the agent finishes the wrong work.
Category
agent-operations
Difficulty
advanced
Last Run
none
Incident Brief
Diagnose why the final result no longer matches the approved task.
Broken State
After context truncation, the agent remembers the feature but not the required e2e.
Symptoms
- The implementation exists, but the acceptance test is missing.
- The final response says verification was skipped without explanation.
Trace
context.summary omitted: e2e must assert denied state final: implemented feature, tests not run