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- Context degradation shows up through observable symptoms: Claude no longer following an instruction it was correctly following earlier in the same session, responses that address only the most recent message and ignore earlier decisions, and accuracy drops that track with content from early in a long session. These symptoms point to a context-management problem -- earlier content being compressed as the window fills -- not to a change in the model's capability mid-session.
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