NavMesh Agent weird behavior

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I have been trying for days to get this movement to work and I can’t figure out the problem. I want the enemy to wander forward for a distance at the moment, but when I try to apply the transform.forward, instead of moving along the z-axis as it should, it starts drifting off in a backward diagonal direction.

public class ZombiePathfinding : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public NavMeshAgent agent;

    private Vector3 target;
    private float timeLeft = 5.0f;

    void Awake()
    {
        agent = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
        animator = GetComponentInChildren<Animator>();
    }
    void Update()
    {
        timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;

        if (timeLeft < 0)
        {
            agent.SetDestination(transform.forward);
        }
    }
}

Any ideas on what could be going wrong?

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Transform.forward is 0,0,1 with respect to the direction of the agent.
So if you are in front of this global coordinate by more than 1 unit, when you set the destination it will try to find it’s way backwards to 0,0,1.