Give Your Agent a Persistent Notebook
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-07-16
The core recommendation here is: don't stuff everything into the conversation; give the agent a continuously updatable notebook.
Anthropic recommends structured note-taking: having Claude maintain a persistently written NOTES.md to log progress, decisions, and status across multiple tool calls, preventing it from being overwhelmed by its own history.
Related event: Anthropic shifts agent engineering toward context engineering(5 posts)→
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