Why Your AI Agent Keeps Losing Context (And How to Fix It)

The moment your AI agent starts a long-_running task, something inevitable happens: it forgets what it was doing. You see this pattern everywhere: A code review agent that loses track of which files it has already reviewed A research agent that stops mid-deep_dive because context window fills up A multi_step agent that completes step 3 but has no idea what step 2 produced This isn't a memory problem. It's an architecture problem. The Context Debt Problem Every agent accumulates context debt — th