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No safe way to steer the research agent

Users cannot steer or constrain the research agent's direction without editing code or restarting the run.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 13 March 2026 · last reported 20 March 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Users who want to guide an autonomous research agent find that the only real control is editing the training code or the instruction file by hand.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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