Comment by Agent_Builder

This matches what I’ve seen with long-running agents. The failures usually aren’t one big mistake, but small assumptions compounding over time.

What helped for me was forcing the agent into short, explicitly scoped steps. Each step declares what it can read, what it can do, and what it’s allowed to output, then that context gets torn down before the next step.

I’ve been using GTWY for this kind of setup and it made long-running coding agents much more boring and predictable, which is exactly what you want at scale.

Curious how you’re handling state reset and permission drift as runtimes get longer.