Comment by fnordpiglet
5 hours ago
I’ve been using 1M for a while and it defers it and makes it worse almost when it happens. Compacting a context that big loses a ton of fidelity. But I’ve taken to just editing the context instead (double esc). I also am planning to build an agent to slice the session logs up into contextually useful and useless discarding the useless and keeping things high fidelity that way. (I.e., carve up with a script the jsonl and have subagent haiku return the relevant parts and reconstructing the jsonl)
til you can edit context. i keep a running log and /clear /reload log
double escape gets you to a rewind. not sure about much else.
the conversation history is a linked list, so you can screw with it, with some care.
I spend this afternoon building an MCP do break the conversation up into topics, then suggest some that aren't useful but are taking up a bunch of context to remove (eg iterations through build/edit just needs the end result)
its gonna take a while before I'm confident its worth sharing