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Your Agent Instructions Are Becoming Append-Only. Here Is the Missing Layer.

Instruction files only grow because a team keeps the rule and loses the reason that would let it delete the rule, and the tools make it worse by loading everything, so the missing layer is a deletion gate recorded at the moment the rule is written.

X · long-form · 2026-08-20

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