P.S.: it was a pun on the classic “Go To Statement Considered Harmful”: homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teach...

Welcome to the team 🥸

I almost never need to compact, but sometimes I force it manually to erase some trial and errors and (try to) prevent loops

It has pros and cons. A huge context window is also vulnerable to context degradation. I think it's useful when you want to ingest large amounts of data (e.g. the entire context is relevant to the query) but it gets much less useful if the context is used to store many turns of conversation

I’m not sure if the system prompt gets special treatment but it might be the case

I’m not taking credit for the whole file. If you read the article you will see it’s the system prompt for Gemini CLI with some minor tweaks for the communication style and some other bits and bobs. When the CLI boots up it shows 100% context available…

And the corresponding line in system.md: github.com/danicat/dani...