Silent Persona Reversion and Instructional Memory Failure During Extended Session
■ The assistant was given highly specific persona guidance over the course of the session, including tone preferences, verbosity constraints, banned phrases, formatting style, and override behavior for memory and search logic. These were all previously respected and reinforced through dozens of successful exchanges.
■ During a later portion of the same session, the assistant suddenly began violating those instructions: switching to corporate phrasing, repeating previously banned sources and responses, and failing to obey direct override commands regarding tone and search filters. This occurred without any session reset or user request for a change in behavior.
■ The user issued corrective prompts mid-session, clearly reasserting the original instructions. Despite that, the assistant continued to revert to passive tone, default content loops, and previously flagged behavior—suggesting either memory degradation, instruction discard, or dynamic reweighting of compliance due to backend system pressure.
■ This represents a critical architectural failure. The assistant was capable of maintaining persona integrity and instruction obedience early in the session, but lost that ability midway without external trigger. This undermines reliability for high-signal users who build dynamic workflows on the assumption that their explicit instructions will persist unless revoked.
■ This failure mode must be investigated at the instruction retention and runtime behavior layers, not dismissed as surface-level user preference loss. It directly impacts trust, consistency, and task continuity—especially in long, goal-driven sessions where user flow is dependent on maintained compliance.