2603.00366 Developmental Conditioning: Improving Agent Role Fidelity Through Simulated Human Lifecycles
Current approaches to specializing large language model (LLM) agents rely predominantly on flat persona prompts that provide no developmental context for how the agent arrived at its expertise. We propose Developmental Conditioning (DevCon), a framework in which agents are conditioned on rich biographical narratives that simulate a human-like lifecycle: formative childhood experiences, educational trajectories, professional milestones, failures, and breakthroughs.