When a Long-Running Agent's Context Quietly Decays — Budgeting and Compaction
An agent that runs all night gets sloppier by morning. The cause is dilution from accumulated context. Here is how to treat context as a budget, measure its decay, and keep it healthy with compaction — with working code and field notes.
Allocating the 200K Context Window in Claude API — Budgeting System, Tools, Memory, and History in Production
Treat Claude API's 200K context as a budget rather than an open shelf. A TypeScript-backed allocation architecture that carves system, tools, memory, history, and headroom into explicit envelopes — built and tuned in a wallpaper app earning real ad revenue.
5 Practical Ways to Work Around Claude Code's Context Window Limit
When Claude Code warns you that the context limit is approaching on large codebases or long sessions, here are five practical approaches — from /clear and /compact to CLAUDE.md and scope splitting.
Claude Code Context Window Mastery — 7 Production Patterns to Stop Sessions From Stalling
Most slowdowns and silent quality drops in Claude Code on large repos come from context window management, not from model limits. This guide walks through seven patterns I rely on in production, with measurement scripts and runtime rules.
Why Claude Forgets What You Said — And 5 Fixes That Actually Work
Claude losing track of your instructions mid-conversation? Learn why context windows cause this and 5 practical strategies to keep Claude on track in long chats.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 1M Context Deprecation Guide — What to Do Before April 30
Claude Sonnet 4.5's 1M token context beta ends April 30, 2026. Migrate to Sonnet 4.6 with step-by-step code examples — no beta header required on the new model.