Your agents are a generation behind, and they will never tell you

Coding agents silently fail on anything shipped after their training cutoff, producing out-of-date plans with no error or hedge, according to an account of how one team hands its agents a short, human-curated, expiring shelf of post-cutoff adoptions. The account argues multi-repo teams need a distribution mechanism to share that curated context across repositories.

Every coding agent has a training cutoff, and anything shipped after it is invisible — not wrong, just absent. The failure is silent: no error, no hedge, just a plan that is quietly out of date. Here is how we hand our agents a short, human-curated, expiring shelf of what our team actually adopted after that date — and why multi-repo teams need a distribution mechanism to do it at all.