The Agent That Read Last Week's Slack Like It Was Yesterday
Your operations agent answers a question about the upcoming launch by quoting a Slack message that says "we'll ship tomorrow." The agent treats that as a present-tense plan and starts writing comms. The message was posted six weeks ago. The ship happened. The retrieval pipeline pulled the right chunk by every metric you measure — semantic similarity to "launch date," top-1 confidence above your threshold, source channel matching the project — and the agent built a plan on a sentence that meant something only inside the meeting where it was written.
The bug is not in the model. The bug is that tomorrow is not a date. It is a pointer to a clock, and the clock the message was written against is not the clock the agent is reading it on. Your retrieval pipeline indexed the body of the message and discarded the frame.
