Walk through how to compact and refresh a long session that is repeating itself and forgetting constraints.
A long session is repeating closed branches, forgetting the current goal, and spending tokens on stale explanations. Compact history into live state: preserve current objective, hard constraints, decisions made, open questions, and links to fresh evidence. A generic summary often becomes a polite recap of everything that happened. That still leaves the model with broad history and weak operational guidance for the next step. Step 1 List what is still live: current objective, non-negotiable constraints, decisions already made, unresolved questions, and authoritative evidence. This separates working memory from archival memory before any summarization happens. Step 2 Compress or remove stale…
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