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A number of agentic coding tools do this. Upon an initial request for a larger set of actions, it will write a markdown file with its "thoughts" on its plan to
by vel0city 1y ago
A number of agentic coding tools do this. Upon an initial request for a larger set of actions, it will write a markdown file with its "thoughts" on its plan to do something, and keep notes as it goes. They'll then automatically compact their contexts and re-read their notes to keep "focused" while still having a bit of insight on what it did previously and what the original ask was.
- cvzakharchenko 1y agoInteresting. I know people do this manually. But are there agentic coding tools that actually automate this approach?
- sshine 1y agoClaude Code has /init and /compact that do this. It doesn’t recreate the context as-is, but creates a context that is presumed to be functionally equivalent. I find that’s not the case and that building up from very little stored context and a lot of specialised dialogue works better.
- vel0city 1y agoI've seen this behavior with Cursor, Windsurf, and Amazon Q. It normally only does it for very large requests from what I've seen.
- tom_m 1y agoThis does help, yes. Todo lists are important. They also reinforce order of operations.