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Your Agent's Context Is Rotting. Here's How I Traced the Decay.
Community description: Every agent fails in the same sneaky way: it forgets what it once knew. The prompt looks fine. The...
Dev.to | Aug 30, 2026 | Riley Wang
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It's context rot — old tool output crowding out fresh decisions. Just raw tool output appended every turn. Same model, same tools, better context hygiene.
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