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- When detailed instructions given early in a long session no longer hold much later, the correct diagnosis is context compression -- the instructions lost force as the window filled -- not Claude disregarding them. That diagnosis then determines whether to restart, summarise, or persist. Breaking a large task into smaller segments with interim knowledge-base saves reduces exposure to this failure mode, and planning segment boundaries in advance is a stronger strategy than extending a single session indefinitely.
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