Specification Drift
The gradual accumulation of deviation between a system's implementation and its original design intent. It manifests as overall behavior slowly diverging from original requirements over multiple iterations, where individual local changes appear reasonable but cumulatively cause a shift in the system's semantics.
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MAST categorizes multi-agent system failures mainly into three types: spec drift, tool error masking, and premature termination or premature verification.
The author proposes that spec drift is not a bug but the thermodynamic default state, analogous to disk bit rot, corroding 'meaning' rather than bytes.
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MAST categorizes multi-agent system failures mainly into three types: spec drift, tool error masking, and premature termination or premature verification.
50%UnverifiedThe author proposes that spec drift is not a bug but the thermodynamic default state, analogous to disk bit rot, corroding 'meaning' rather than bytes.
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