Context compaction drops facts the agent still needs
Context compaction drops tool results, subagent conclusions and the active user request, so the agent loses facts it needs and invents file names.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 3 April 2026 · last reported 15 September 2026
What's going wrong
Learners building agents with the context compaction lesson report that the simplified compaction steps discard information the agent still relies on.
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