The Loop That Re-Reads Its Diary
An autonomous agent isn't a bigger context window. It's a tiny window run many times, where the git log — not the chat history — carries the decisions between passes.
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An autonomous agent isn't a bigger context window. It's a tiny window run many times, where the git log — not the chat history — carries the decisions between passes.
A million-token window won't fix a long build. Externalize state to a plan file and run a relay across fresh sessions, because quality dies long before the window fills.
Hand-passing one plan per run keeps you inside the loop doing task selection for the agent. Pipe your whole issue tracker in and let it pick the next ticket itself.
The gap between agent capability and SME knowledge is the only problem worth solving. Context engineering is how you close it.
Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode all converged on the same primitive — a rules file the agent reads on every session. Use it.
MCP is the standard protocol for plugging external systems — issue trackers, databases, design tools — into AI agents. Every major tool added support for it this year. Here's what changes when you use it.