Context Compaction

1 min read

I shared an analysis of context compaction across roughly 400,000 coding-agent turns, examining tool errors and tool use around compaction. Discussion.

Citation

If you found this post useful, please cite it as:

@misc{qin2026context,
  title        = {Context Compaction},
  author       = {Qin, Bowen},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Blog post},
  url          = {https://eyuansu62.github.io/news/2026-08-21-context-compaction/}
}