#context

Working with Fable 5.2, the session gets compacted into a summary after almost every task, and the app shows how many tokens each compaction saved. Put rules in files and give each task in one message so nothing gets lost.

A beginner tutorial: the context window is limited. It explains the types of context, how to plan for them, the four techniques of writing, selecting, compressing and isolating, and common context failures.

Agents get less obedient the more you use them, usually because AGENTS.md has piled up too much. Write only what the agent can't see for itself and that really affects results, prune it regularly, and include a cleanup prompt.

DSH getting more expensive the longer you use it, forgetting everything when you switch sessions, not being able to see images, clunky web search, and not knowing which plugin to install? Five community projects, dsh-context, MemOS, ModLens, ModSearch, and awesome-dsh-plugin, each tackle one of these, along with what to check before installing.