In a long-running codebase debugging session, the agent makes important intermediate discoveries but starts…

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In a long-running codebase debugging session, the agent makes important intermediate discoveries but starts forgetting earlier constraints as the context window fills. How can you ensure these intermediate discoveries survive context compression boundaries?

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C. Persist critical intermediate state to external scratchpad files, which survive session boundaries and context resets.

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A. Declare global variables in the system prompt to hold state.

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B. Use the --resume flag to append the new context to the old session.

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D. Apply the 'lost in the middle' effect by placing the discoveries in the exact center of the prompt.

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