#context-window
Every post tagged "context-window".
36 posts · showing 31–36
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Reading Your First Agent Trace: Wrong Tool, Wrong Argument, or Wrong Plan?
Four buckets, checked in order, and most agent failures resolve before you get to the interesting one. The trick is finding the first wrong turn and reading the raw array — not the pretty rendering.
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What Belongs in Long-Term Memory (and What's Just Transcript)
Embedding every turn gives you a transcript with a search box, not memory. Three categories deserve to outlive a conversation — and the contradiction problem needs deciding before it arrives, not after.
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Trim, Summarize, or Retrieve? Three Ways to Survive a Long Agent Run
Trimming loses the oldest information, summarizing loses specificity, retrieval loses whatever the query missed. Which loss your run can survive is the whole decision — plus one rule that prevents most long-run failures.
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The Supervisor That Became a Bottleneck: When Not to Add a Second Agent
Splitting a task across agents adds a boundary, and every boundary quietly drops context. Here's the test for whether your second agent is buying isolation or just paying double for a worse answer.
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Your Agent Isn't Thinking, It's Looping — Read One Turn of the Trace
There's no reasoning engine and no memory — just a while-loop, a stateless model, and an array that grows. Unroll one turn of it and most agent mysteries stop being mysteries.
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Why Your Agent Forgets Step 2 by Step 7 — And Four Ways to Keep the Thread
Agents rarely fail because they reason badly — they fail because the original instruction gets buried under accumulated tool output. Here's how to tell displacement from dilution, and four fixes that keep the thread intact.