Everything You Need to Know About Context Windows and Agent Memory
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An AI agent does not remember your project the way a colleague does. It sees a fixed amount of text at a time, called the context window, and everything outside it is invisible. Most surprising agent behaviour traces back to that boundary: a rule from ten messages ago is forgotten, a file it read e…
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- 2026-10-18 16:24 · DEV Community — AI
Everything You Need to Know About Context Windows and Agent Memory