https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/goal-drift/ Recent content in Goal-Drift on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/multi-agent-goal-drift/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/multi-agent-goal-drift/ Loop drift is one agent staying busy without getting closer to done. Hand the same failure to a crew and every agent stays busy, produces defensible work, and the team’s collective objective still ends up somewhere your original request never sent it — a genuine multi-agent goal drift failure mode, not a mistake in any single agent’s reasoning. A concrete feature-build failure, the four things that make a goal decay one handoff at a time, and what to measure so a ‘done’ check compares against the original ask instead of the nearest upstream spec.