alt Hacker NewsI called them "artificially incessant" after I watched our PR orchestrator agent use subagents to work around permissions to read files, despite instructions that explained the intentional restrictions. I've since added more markdown telling it that using subagents to work around these is a security violation. We'll see if this tactic is mostly reliable
I think we should aim to move these security violation rules away from the prompt, to a deterministic place. Not sure how your orchestrator works, but is it possible to add a check between the agent's decision and its execution? e.g. the agent decides to read a file, that decision goes somewhere that checks if the agent has permission to do that or not before it actually reads the file.