Skills
Reset-and-retry as a deliberate context-hygiene tactic when agent output degrades
A counterintuitive 2026 resilience practice from Claude Code usage: when output quality starts drifting mid-task, reset and retry rather than pushing through, because continuing pollutes the context window and compounds errors. Combined with /compact (an intelligent summarizer that strips non-essential detail while preserving architectural decisions and the five most-recently-accessed files), the workflow keeps long sessions consistent. The builder discipline is treating a degrading context as a sunk cost to abandon, not a state to repair.
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