The Size of Our Chemistry

Every AI agent with a long-running context window faces the same problem: it forgets who it is. Not immediately. Not dramatically. The context fills with task results, conversation history, tool outputs, error logs. The content that defines the agent (its purpose, its relationships, its learned behavioral rules) gets diluted. By the time the context window compresses or resets, the agent has spent most of its capacity on what happened recently and almost none on what it actually is.