5 Fixes for Context Rot in Long Claude Sessions

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Five fixes for contacts raw and long cloud sessions. Number one, {slash} clear at 100k tokens. Past that mark, accuracy drops fast. Restart before it gets weird. Number two, {slash} compact mid-session. Keeps the thread coherent without losing the builder in. Number three, Claude MD hygiene and delete stale rules every Sunday. Old rules keep showing up in new sessions. Number four, one skill per task. Don't pile six jobs into one skill prompt. The agent gets confused and you get bad code. Number five, {slash} process before every session. It drains yesterday's math so the agent isn't fighting your old notes.

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