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Context Compaction Visualizer: See Exactly What Your AI Agent Forgot Before It Costs You (opens in new tab)

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When an AI agent runs for many turns, it eventually hits context limits and must compress or discard earlier messages. This is often invisible, yet critical - lost context can cause the agent to forget constraints, user preferences, or prior decisions. The framework moves on. The agent keeps running. And somewhere in those discarded turns is a security finding, a constraint, a decision that the rest of the session quietly proceeds without. Context Compaction Visualizer makes that process visi...

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