Proposed Context Inspector UI Shows What Your AI Remembers vs. Silently Dropped
DanThinker · reddit · 2026-10-14
A Reddit user proposes a "Context Inspector" for long AI sessions, tackling "silent amnesia" — models quietly evict early tokens while users assume they're remembered. The concept: a badge lights up when context is compressed, opening a panel split into Active Memory and Dropped Context. Implementation uses a lightweight background model to generate structured key-value summaries of evicted tokens. Benefits include catching dropped schemas before generating broken code and re-injecting lost rules without resending full history; tradeoffs are extra latency, imperfect summarization, and UI clutter.
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