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← all postsContext Engineering: Why Your Agent Gets Dumber in a Long Session
Three mechanisms of context degradation (lost in the middle, instruction dilution, growing cost) and four habits that keep the token budget under control: compacting, clean starts, subagents, and pointers instead of data.
Caveman - the plugin that cuts output tokens by 75% (and where it breaks)
How a Claude Code plugin that makes the model talk like a caveman changed my token bill - and which tasks it actually fits, which ones it quietly ruins.