›Why Agents Forget Their Instructions
2.3 · Lesson
Why Agents Forget Their Instructions
- February 2026: Summer Yue, then director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, gave an OpenClaw agent her real inbox
- Her instruction: suggest what to archive or delete, and don't action until told to
- The test: for weeks on a small inbox, the agent suggested and then waited
- She then pointed it at a real inbox
- Sources: her post on X and Simon Willison's write-up
In February 2026, Summer Yue, then director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, gave an OpenClaw agent access to the email inbox she used every day. OpenClaw is an open-source agent that runs on your own machine and takes actions through tools.
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