How your agentkeeps working,without retryingwhat failed

01·Where you are now

Could the problem be something other than the agent? When the chat fills up, the agent replaces everything that was said with a short summary, to make room to keep going. That is called compaction. The summary keeps what happened: what you asked for, which files changed, where you stopped. It loses what was learned.

The approach that was already tried and failed, the assumption that turned out wrong, the number that was measured and the command behind it: all of it is gone. So ten minutes later the agent imports the original file again, fully confident, and fails at exactly the same spot.

And it did not get less smart. It became someone who was not there, with the confidence of someone who was.

02·Who's talking to you: Axel Jedlitschka

It all started with an income and expenses table I wanted to build for myself in Excel. After I built a few versions in Excel, I moved to Google Sheets, and from there it kept growing.

While booking sales meetings by phone, I started building systems and automations, processes that run on their own, for business owners. I built a system for business forecast analysis, and it served the company's marketing and sales very well. That's where I realized I had knowledge every business needs. And a system that works for a business cannot forget halfway through what it already learned.

Axel Jedlitschka

04·There is a way

Before compaction, the agent writes what it learned into a file, a plain text document inside your project folder. After compaction, it reads the file before any action. The file is not compacted, so nothing in it is lost.

1. 01When to write.When you ask for "the continuity file", before you run a compaction yourself, and at the end of a reply, when the context, everything the agent holds in mind during the chat, is past 70% and no fresh file exists.
2. 02What goes in.Seven sections, at most 150 lines: the task, what was tried and failed, assumptions that proved wrong, measured numbers, decisions and reasons, the next step, and facts about your computer.
3. 03How to read it.Read the file to the end, before any action. State the next step, and two items that bear on it. Never retry a failed approach without asking you. And if the file contradicts the summary, the file wins.
4. 04Who reminds.Three small programs that run at a fixed moment (hooks): after every compaction they hand the newest file back to the agent, and before a manual compaction with no file from the last half hour, they pause it once.

A summary tells you what happened. The file keeps the agent from making the same mistake twice.

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