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Why long-horizon agents still drift — and the fix

Agents that run for hours accumulate small errors into big failures. A new memory-anchoring trick keeps them on track.

The drift problem

Long-running agents lose the plot. Each step inherits the small mistakes of the last, and after enough steps the trajectory wanders off.

What changed

Anchoring each decision to a verified history — instead of the agent's own recent output — stops errors from compounding. For builders, this is the difference between a demo and a product.