context compaction
noun1
A technique used by AI agents to manage and reduce the size of accumulated conversation history or data during long-running tasks.
Artificial intelligence
- The complex task sent the AI agent into a phenomenon called context compaction, which refers to a process that occurs in long-running AI agent sessions, leading to the model's context window becoming full. As a result, it ends up compressing the data so that it can continue running.2026 February 24, Kevin Okemwa, “Meta's safety director handed OpenClaw AI agents the keys to her emails — and watched it "speedrun deleting" her inbox”, in Windows Central, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026: