Add compaction directives to context management#17
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Context compaction (automatic summarization when the context window fills) drops session-specific state unless explicitly told what to preserve. Add compaction directives to JESSE.md that protect routine phase, modified files, user corrections, and other ephemeral state. Add compaction awareness to the Start-of-Day routine (most likely to trigger compaction). Add a Core Principle requiring the agent to re-read the instruction file after any compaction.
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Summary
Context compaction (automatic summarization when the context window fills) drops session-specific state unless told what to preserve. This PR adds:
The governing principle: preserve session state that can't be reconstructed from the vault. Raw tool outputs and file contents are safe to drop (they're either persisted or were only needed momentarily). Ephemeral coordination state — where we are, what's changed, what the user corrected — must survive.
Based on Anthropic's context engineering best practices and real-world community experience with compaction failures.