In the previous guide, we built a three-layer compaction strategy that lets the agent run indefinitely. That's a major capability — but it comes with a cost. Compaction is lossy. When auto-compact fires, the agent's entire conversation history collapses into a two-message summary. The gist survives — what was accomplished, which files were touched, key decisions — but the specifics vanish. If the
Task System: A File-Based DAG That Survives Context Compaction
Ivan Magda·Dev.to··1 min read
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