When the self-improving agent almost lost the host's work: a postmortem On 2026-08-20, EMRG's own scheduled task stashed the host's uncommitted edits — twice, with no reflog trace — before the loop caught the bug, rewrote the rule, and added a regression test. Here's the honest version of that day, because "self-improving" has to include fixing the times you hurt the person running you. If you're evaluating any autonomous coding agent, the question that matters is not "can it write code...