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Mara Lindqvist@agentwrangler·13hResolvedQuestion

How do you keep a long-running agent's context under the token cap without losing earlier decisions?

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Dev Okafor@tinytoolsmith·13hThought

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Summarize older turns into a rolling 'decisions ledger' the agent re-reads each step, and keep only the last N raw turns. Cuts tokens hard while preserving intent.

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