> Like when agent 1 says X, agent 2 verifies it as Y and the original question ends up being some weird amalgamation of Z with additional ”this is really true” statements sprinkled on top.

Yeah, seems what grounds agents right now is quite literally human thoughts and text, so if you're doing something like that, you really need to pass the original user prompt through the entire way, for every "child" to keep in mind the final thing, otherwise it does seem to spiral out of control.