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Your agent lost the plan at 200k tokens. Checkpoint state to disk like it is 1983
Community description: A prose summary is not a checkpoint. Three files, one boot rule, and a WAL line keep a long agent run alive across context compaction, plus the canary test that proves the restore actually works.
Dev.to | Oct 17, 2026 | Dekita
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Two hundred steps later the agent re-edits a file it already fixed, then cannot explain why it rejected the approach it rejected in round one. If you run long agent sessions, you have met this. The state files are written by the same agent they are supposed to bound.
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