Agent context trick 2: the Relevance Cutoff — summarize and drop irrelevant messages
bigaiguy · x · 2026-09-14
Trick 2 from the ex-Google engineer's agent memory repo: the Relevance Cutoff. Keeping full conversation history 'just in case' dilutes important tokens. His rule: any message that doesn't change the current task gets summarized and dropped, no exceptions.
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