The safest next move is rarely another feature. First separate what still carries product truth from what only carries implementation noise.
When each new session creates a new interpretation of the app, another feature increases the number of things you must reconcile later. Pause the feature queue long enough to establish what the product is actually trying to protect.
Describe the visible workflow, the important records, and the point where trust breaks. Screenshots and a coding-agent audit are more useful than asking a new model to guess from a vague ?please clean this up? request.
Classify the current build into preserve, rebuild, and defer. The goal is not to save every file. The goal is to keep the useful center while removing the paths that make the next change less trustworthy.
The handoff should tell the agent what to read, what decision it is serving, what it must not silently change, and what evidence it must return. A leader agent can coordinate the decision while an executor agent investigates and implements within that boundary.
Move from the failure pattern to a real recovery example before opening your own case.
AI-built apps rarely fail because one prompt was bad. They fail because product truth, code truth, and the build workflow split apart.
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Read nextIf this failure pattern looks familiar, move into the Case Room and bound the app before another coding session drifts it further.
Understand how Driftbreak moves from intake to package without pretending the case is already clear.
Review what the architecture, blueprint, workflow, and coding sessions actually look like.
Start a case once you want the bounded architecture and implementation handoff for your own app.
