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Context Compaction

Research on how other coding assistants implement context compaction to manage long conversations.

Overview

Context compaction (also called "handoff" or "summarization") is a technique to manage the context window in long coding sessions. When conversations grow too long, performance degrades and costs increase. Compaction summarizes the conversation history into a condensed form, allowing work to continue without hitting context limits.

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