Gilfoyle Got Boundaries. His Chats Needed the Memo.
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Changing my AI admin’s rules should have been straightforward: save the policy, deploy it, restart the gateway. Then I traced how an existing conversation restores its instructions: it can reuse its stored prompt instead of loading the new policy file. Apparently Gilfoyle had a way to keep outdated management instructions. Very on brand.
When I introduced Gilfoyle in April, he was an observer. He watched services, investigated alerts, and told me what broke. By October, his policy carried an Admin label. The interesting work became deciding exactly what that label allowed, then checking which conversations actually loaded those rules.