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Repeated context compaction in Astra, with old and irrelevant information still hanging…

Repeated context compaction in Astra, with old and irrelevant information still hanging around, really gets in the way…

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Repeated context compaction in Astra, with old and irrelevant information still hanging around, really gets in the way of development. I’ve turned on Codex’s experimental context management, which is off by default: features.context_management.experimental_mode = true It uses notes and searchable history to preserve details. Astra can keep notes across context windows and look up earlier messages and tool results from the same task. Add the setting at the top level of config.toml, then start a new task. Over the next few days, I’m going to test whether it can find previously agreed require

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