Knowledge tagged “sessions”

Clearing
Concept · Context Engineering
Ending the current session and starting a fresh one with an empty context window.
Compaction
Concept · Context Engineering
A handoff done in-memory: the session's history is summarised and the summary seeds a fresh session.
Session
Concept · Context Engineering
One bounded run of interaction with an agent; the session is what fills the context window.
Smart zone
Concept · Context Engineering
The early, sharp part of a session, before growing context drifts the agent into a sloppier "dumb zone".
Turn
Concept · Harness Engineering
One user message plus everything the agent does in response, up until it yields back to the user.

Clearing