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Context compaction for AI agents: a complete guide

calendar_today May 25, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

Your agent just spent 40 turns debugging a gnarly authentication issue. It found the root cause, mapped out a fix, and started implementing. Then, somewhere around turn 45, it forgot everything it learned and started investigating from scratch.

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