Notes on building a coding agent
Context windows, handover, and what it takes for an agent to keep track of real work.
Context Compaction vs. Agent Handover for Long Coding TasksJuly 11, 2026
Two strategies for managing LLM context-window limits. One compresses the past into a summary. The other transfers task state to a fresh session. Which one works, when, and at what cost?
I Stopped Compacting Coding-Agent Conversations and Started Handing Work to a Fresh AgentJuly 11, 2026
Context compaction works for chat. It fails for code. Here is why structured session handover is the only reliable way to preserve task state across LLM context-window boundaries.