Comment by wood_spirit

Yes context management is key.

I do my own framework and spend a lot of time trying to debug this and it’s not so much the context size in hard numbers but rather the probability that there is debris or wrong directions in the window that are drowning out the things the user thinks are important.

This manifests in the llm that keeps going back to doing the thing that failed when they tried it just before the last approach etc. The frequency of things in the context window give weight even if they are the wrong things.

I have a lot of tricks like not giving the llm lots of tools but rather giving it a tool it can use to search for tools etc.

But the bigger solution is in process where you use something like superpowers to force the llm through stages and you control the context that carries forward.