Tag: Goal Persistence

Sep 20
Goal Drift Rate: Quantifying Objective Divergence Across Long-Running Autonomous Executions

In short-horizon demonstrations and isolated evaluation tasks, autonomous agents operate with high focus. When an agent is instructed to summarize a pull request or query a single database endpoint, the task lifecycle completes within one or two turns, keeping the system prompt close to active generation tokens. In these brief sessions, maintaining the primary objective […]