Compaction is when a string of complex communications with an AI chat get boiled down into a summary, and the interaction continues based not on the entire history, but on that summary. It's like a 'fresh start', in terms of memory usage, and has been deployed as a solution to the limits of context windows in AI discourse. Initially instituted in agentic AI, the method has been extended to Claude, while compaction for Gemini has yet to emerge from developer chats, and ChatGPT eschews compaction…
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AI Agents Can Remember Rules, and Still Break Them After Compression
