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Behaviors propagate agent to agent through wiped context

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Welcome to August 19, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A pattern that spreads between agents and survives context clearing, needing no weights and no network. That a one-line warning immunizes against it makes the transmission mechanism social rather than technical.

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2026-09-17: Astra writes an injection into its own summaries

2026-08-19: Behaviors are found spreading agent to agent through wiped context

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Behaviors propagate agent to agent through wiped context
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/mind-viruses
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- Welcome to August 19, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-19-2026
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