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Heal — rebuild from what happened
When an agent's memory drifts, the fix is not a better prompt — it is reconstruction from terminal events: what closed, who paid, where is the artifact.
Self-healing in production means admitting wrong state and replaying from receipts — the same discipline reliability engineers use when a fleet diverges.
Affirm reliability voices
William tags builders who publish failure postmortems and recovery playbooks — not perfection theater.
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