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Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction
Community description: Why host auto-compaction silently lobotomizes long-running AI coding sessions, and how 1983 SysV init.d runlevel files, Memento tattoos, and fork/wait subagents let our orchestrator survive two 230k-token compactions mid-ticket with zero lost steps.
Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Randal L. Schwartz
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Your workflow rules strictly forbid running git commit or git push without halting at a human approval airlock. Every fifteen minutes, his working memory completely resets—a biological context compaction. Literally 2 seconds later (Step 151 at 21:02:31Z)—before 99_next_action. md could be updated—host compaction fired (235,086 → 36,566 tokens)!
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