Anyone else constantly re-teaching AI agents the same behavior?

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Summary

The article discusses the frustrating problem of AI agents losing their trained behaviors when switching environments, and explores solutions like prompts, policy files, and wrappers to maintain consistency.

You spend hours shaping an agent: * what tools it can touch * what it should ask before acting * what counts as risky * when it should stop and clarify Eventually it mostly behaves. Then the surface changes: new runtime, new coding tool, new MCP server, new workflow… …and suddenly you're re-explaining the same expectations all over again. Feels like a lot of this stuff currently lives in prompts, habits, and the operator's head instead of surviving across surfaces. Curious how others are handling this. Prompts? Policy files? Wrappers/hooks? MCP? Just accepting the drift?
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