Topic
context
4 posts
- Agents7 min
I told the agent to search its memory. It made 31 tool calls and searched zero times
LLM agent memory search: a 24-run experiment said telling the agent to search was as good as injecting notes. It measured irrelevant notes against nothing, and nobody searched.
- Agents8 min
Building the guardrails I needed after a session died
Claude Code hooks and a status line for context usage and compaction. Both read the transcript rather than an API field, and that choice is the post.
- Agents10 min
Context is burned by tool output, not by conversation
Claude Code context usage over a two-month transcript: the largest entries were single command results, around 300,000 tokens each.
- Agents9 min
An 80-day agent session and the wall at the end of it
Claude Code context limit on an 80-day session: fifty compactions, each starting from a full million tokens. Then one morning it stopped answering for nineteen minutes.