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RAG Resets are Leaky Abstractions: Evidence from 43 Verified Runs

Author: Reamond Lopez (@Aequitas_Architech) Project Site: manifund.org/projects/veritas I. Context: The Recursive Authority Paradox (VRP #481185859) Before getting into the RAG data, it is necessary to establish the audit baseline. On February 5, 2026, Google’s VRP team triaged a report I submitted regarding a Logic-Layer Sandbox Bypass in Gemini. VRP Timeline:...

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Empirical Observations of Instruction Persistence in Long-Context RAG Systems

Summary Over the past few weeks, I’ve been stress-testing long-context Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and keep running into the same odd behavior: certain kinds of retrieved text seem able to influence model behavior even after they’re no longer present in the active prompt. I’m not approaching this as an alignment...

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RAG Resets are Leaky Abstractions: Evidence from 43 Verified Runs

Empirical Observations of Instruction Persistence in Long-Context RAG Systems

RAG Resets are Leaky Abstractions: Evidence from 43 Verified Runs

Empirical Observations of Instruction Persistence in Long-Context RAG Systems