Long Agent Sessions Rot — Start Fresh Instead of Scrolling Back Up
After 15–20 turns, the agent starts re-litigating decisions it already made and contradicts code it wrote earlier. The fix isn't a bigger context window. It's ending the session.
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Every Agent Task Should End With a Command You Can Run
An agent's claim of 'done' is worthless without a one-line command that proves it. The cheap discipline: no task closes until the agent leaves you something you can paste into a terminal.
Stop Pasting Your Whole Repo Into the Agent
Dumping every file into the prompt doesn't give the agent more signal — it buries the one file it actually needs. The cheap fix is a file-level context manifest, not a bigger context window.