strategic-compact

To prevent context loss during long assistant sessions, use strategic context compaction at logical task boundaries to preserve important task state while discarding bulky intermediate discussion.

The best time to compact context in a multi-phase workflow is at logical phase boundaries, such as after finishing research, before implementation, or after debugging, to start the next phase with cleaner context.

Strategic context compaction is a method that uses tool-call tracking and threshold-based reminders to guide manual context compression at logical milestones, preserving essential instructions and plans instead of relying on arbitrary automatic truncation.

You can manage context pressure when switching tasks by triggering manual compaction at the transition point, ensuring the previous task's bulky intermediate data is discarded while important state and plans are retained.

Automatic context truncation reduces coherence in extended workflows because it arbitrarily removes information without recognizing logical phase boundaries, whereas strategic compaction selectively preserves essential task state and instructions.