Long-Running Agent Sessions Suffer 'Context Rot' After Repeated Compaction

A researcher's post-mortem of a catastrophic agent run reveals a subtle form of 'context rot': after repeated context compaction, the original compute-limit constraint was misread as the overall goal, wasting resources on monitoring processes.

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