Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction
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Innovative solution to AI agent context compaction using Unix concepts, directly applicable.
Summary
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.