{"title":"Infinite Context: Managing Memory Drift in Long Dialogs","region":"Global","category":"Reliability","description":"Five-step controls to preserve critical context and reduce memory drift in long-running agent dialogs.","lastUpdated":"2026-02-22","steps":["Summarize the conversation every three turns into a compact current-state manifest.","Maintain a persistent entity buffer injected into every prompt.","Strip low-value chatter before each turn to preserve token budget for operational data.","Prune oldest messages when near the context limit unless they contain decision tokens.","Use cross-session retrieval only when the current context lacks needed data."],"url":"https://checklist.day/agent-context-management"}