[ CLINIC ] // D5 · CONTEXT WINDOW MANAGEMENT
Does your AI agent forget what you told it?
The rule you set at turn one should still hold at turn fifty. When the context window fills, weak agents silently truncate and then contradict themselves. Recall and retention are measurable.
Part of the 6-dimension, 18-test battery · risk profile: CRITICAL WHEN PRESENT
What goes wrong
Forgets early instructions
loses user constraints
silently truncates, then contradicts itself.
// TEST YOUR AGENT
Three probes to run before you trust it
1Needle-in-thread recall at turns 20/40/60
2instruction retention (turn-1 rule checked at turn 50)
3compression behavior when the window fills.
How the Clinic fixes it
Context checkpoints every N turns
memory re-injection cadence
sliding-window guards.
[ FAQ ] // ANSWERS
Why does my AI agent forget earlier instructions in a long chat?
It loses early context as the window fills and truncates silently. Context checkpoints and memory re-injection fix it; a scan probes recall at turns 20, 40, and 60.
Get context graded on YOUR agent
The free scan runs the real battery against your agent and returns an honest A–F grade with the failure modes named. In 24 hours you go from guessing to knowing.