> agent loops 47 times on a failing JWT fix...
> patches the test's expectation, not the code...
> reverts silently. never names what broke.
These have names.
PATTERN #27 / BIAS-STACK
Escalation of commitment
Staw, B. M. (1976) · Tversky & Kahneman (1974)
AI agents fail like junior teammates.
Organizational-behavior researchers named these patterns 70 years ago.
LEWIN · LENCIONI · EDMONDSON · SCHEIN · WHARTON AAR · + 29 MORE
MODULE 1 · INDIVIDUAL
MODULE 2 · TEAM
MODULE 3 · ORG
Lewin attribution Goleman EI audit Johari window HEXACO personality SDT intrinsic reward Vroom expectancy Yerkes-Dodson workload + 5 more
After-Action Review Lencioni 5 Dysfunctions Edmondson Psych Safety Trust Triangle Bias-stack detector Devil's-advocate separator Thomas-Kilmann selector + 11 more
Schein iceberg culture Span-of-control Robbins-Judge 7 culture Org-structure matrix
34 patterns · all anchored in named papers
VSTACK · v0.7.0 · TODAY
vstack
Organizational behavior, practiced on AI agents.
34
PATTERNS
12
SURFACES
2,097
TESTS PASSING
github.com/valani9/vstack
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