Write state to files before the window fills
Have the agent persist plans and intermediate results outside the context window, and re-read them as needed.
WHY IT HOLDS
Long-horizon tasks exceed any window. Persisting the plan means a truncation or reset doesn't lose the thread — Anthropic's research agent saves its plan to memory precisely because the context would otherwise be truncated.
WHAT IT PREVENTS
Losing the plan when context is truncated mid-task.
ADOPTED BY
2 organisationsAnthropic, Manus
SOURCES
RING HISTORY
Aug 2026 — set to Standard. Anthropic and Manus independently. Manus calls it the recitation pattern.
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DOES THE PRACTICE WORK FOR YOU?
Field reports are not open yet. When they are, you will be able to sign in with GitHub and record whether this practice held on your stack — one report per person, so the counts mean something. Nothing is collected here in the meantime.