Why agent harnesses need plans – and why you shouldn't compact context

Why agent harnesses need plans – and why you shouldn't compact context swarmagent.dev

An architectural deep dive into why baking planning directly into the agent runtime prevents context drift, eliminates expensive 100k-1M token compaction passes, slashes multi-agent FinOps costs, and preserves prompt…

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ta9887 days ago

compact with instructions to keep the plan...

verdverm6 days ago

I find fresh sessions to be superior (vibes) as self summary and compaction leaves weird things. I instead have it write things to a file that can be iterated or acted on in fresh sessions

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