I never really rely on compaction. Instead, I instruct the coding agents to maintain a handoff markdown document across sessions. Ymmv.

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alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent [-]

What about if you’ve given a plan that will take hours? How do you tell how to auto-compact since it can’t read its own environment?

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pseudony a day ago | parent [-]

Cannot show now because Github times out for me, again.

I had pi write me a ralph loop plugin. You plan with it, it breaks it down into tasks. Task success means clearing the context - if it runs out of context, it clears and starts on the same task again (code changes from previous run are left intact).

Complete with little docker-like names for Ralph sessions and the ability to resume sessions should you need to.

Point is, I would generally do this because it costs less context I think, and better tracks progress.

Ping me if you are interested and want it. Otherwise, plenty around :)

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esalman 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do something similar to this, but manually. I just ask Opus to break the implementation into phases, after each phase is complete it'll update the handoff document, and I'll review the work before starting the next phase in a new session.

I actually started using Opus 5.5 2-3 weeks ago and I'm still having to adapt my workflow around it.

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machomaster a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please share with me.

	▲	pseudony a day ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/jwdevantier/ralphish :)

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alfiedotwtf a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Hehe yes please. I’m not sure how it will go mixing it with Superpowers, but your workflow sounds really useful. I like that it can recover from zero.. especially when I overclock ram and then hangs

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pseudony a day ago | parent [-]

Hey, replying so it's easy for you to follow up on.

https://github.com/jwdevantier/ralphish

Remember, I didn't write a word of it - so if anything is not to your liking, it's no harder than pointing a model at it to fix it. One of the many powers of Pi is the way plugin- and API documentation is bundled in.

	▲	alfiedotwtf a day ago \| parent [-]
		Nice. Thanks for the link :)