Your agent lost the plan at 200k tokens. Checkpoint state to disk like it is 1983
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Three hours into a refactor run, the harness prints a line like this: [Context compacted: 235,246 tokens -> 14,800 tokens] Two hundred steps later the agent re-edits a file it already fixed, then cannot explain why it rejected the approach it rejected in round one. Nothing crashed. The build is gre…
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- 2026-10-17 16:59 · DEV Community — AI
Your agent lost the plan at 200k tokens. Checkpoint state to disk like it is 1983