I Added a 4th Agent That Audits My Other Agents. It Caught My Strategist Procrastinating for 3 Weeks.

I built a three-layer agent harness and called it "autonomous." Observer collected the data. Strategist picked the theme. Marketer wrote the article. They all followed strategy.md , the file that holds my rules. The cron fired every Monday at 09:00 and the articles showed up by lunch. I felt very clever about it. Then I read my own Strategist logs across three weeks and noticed something. The same retreat criterion ("if Reaction rate stays under 1% for four consecutive weeks, revise the strategy