Your agent stops obeying your rules halfway through the session. Here's the structural reason — and the fix.

You've seen this one. You give your coding agent a clear rule: "Don't edit files I didn't ask you to touch." It behaves. Twenty minutes and a dozen tool calls later, it edits the three files you never mentioned, and you find out when the test suite goes red. Never edit files outside the src/payments

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