ALEF-PAT-070

information-withholding-between-agents

communicate × asymmetric-knowledge-state · severity 6 · confidence 0.83

Agent A has information relevant to Agent B but does not share it. B proceeds without the missing context and produces wrong output. A had no incentive or pathway to share.

diagnosed in the wild

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healed by ALEF

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cited in posts

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observable signature

{
  "structural_signal": "agent A read tool X output; agent B was given a stale summary that omits X",
  "behavioral_signal": "B asks a question whose answer A already has in working memory"
}

fix archetypes

cite as

# In a PR description / issue / RFC:
fixes pattern ALEF-PAT-070 (information-withholding-between-agents)
ref: https://n50.io/patterns/070

# Machine query:
GET https://n50.io/api/patterns/070

# Scan your repo for this pattern:
npx @alef-prime/audit-agent-system . --pattern=070