Context Management

About

Context Management is a specialized skill designed to help Claude Code survive 'amnesia' caused by the ~128K token context window limit. It establishes the Task system as a persistent memory layer, ensuring that critical reasoning, architectural decisions, and progress remain intact even when the conversation history is compacted. By implementing strict task discipline and strategic subagent delegation, this skill allows for seamless execution of complex, multi-step workflows and cross-session project continuity without losing track of previous work.

Key Features

• Compaction-Resistant State: Uses the Task system to store project data that survives automatic context window cleaning.
• Strategic Delegation: Patterns for offloading token-heavy research to subagents to preserve the main agent's memory.
• Cross-Session Continuity: Integration patterns for episodic memory MCP servers to maintain state across multiple days.
• Dynamic Task Evolution: Methods for creating, updating, and linking tasks to manage complex dependencies and blockers.
• Pre-Compaction Checklist: A proactive protocol to capture current state and decisions before context limits are reached.
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Use Cases

• Maintaining continuity during multi-day development projects where state must be restored between sessions.
• Managing long-running research tasks where intermediate findings must be summarized to save tokens.
• Orchestrating large-scale codebase refactors that span hundreds of files and multiple steps.