Failure Signatures/Repository Drift
Systemic Risk

Repository Drift

The structural divergence between an AI agent's internal representation of a codebase and the actual deterministic state of the repository.

Operational Symptoms

  • Using deprecated APIs
  • Ignoring new abstractions
  • Reinventing existing utilities

Economic Impact

Technical debt multiplier across the codebase.

Governance Collapse

Breaks CI/CD and institutional policy.

How Engineering Teams Describe This

"Claude starts patching its own patches."
"It rewrote my entire architecture without asking."
"Project scope drift."

Diagnostic Telemetry

Repository divergenceUnauthorized architecture mutationDependency drift

Operational FAQ

Why does AI ignore my existing architecture?

Without Repository Drift Prevention, probabilistic models lack the deterministic grounding to adhere to the repository's current state.