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CONTEXT-ENGINEERING5 MIN READ

Sort What Stays Live, What Gets Summarized, and What Drops

Sort session artifacts into live state, summarize for continuity, and drop from active context.

Keep live Summarize Drop Current objective and success criteria for the next action. A resolved false positive that no longer affects any decision. Open question about whether the user is on v2 or v3. A seven-turn brainstorming branch already rejected by the team. Decision log of which files were already reviewed and cleared. Non-negotiable constraint: never edit production credentials. Long explanatory paragraphs about why an earlier option was rejected. Temporary chit-chat unrelated to the task. List of current evidence links that still support the working conclusion.

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