🌀
Anti-Patterns: Context
How agents drown in their own context — stale information, corrupted memories, and wasteful token usage that silently degrade output quality.
3 patterns
Context Rot
🚫Intermediate
Agent context fills with stale, irrelevant information over time, silently degrading output quality.
Memory Corruption
🚫Advanced
Long-term memory stores incorrect or outdated facts that compound over time, leading the agent to build on false foundations.
Token Gluttony
🚫Basic
Architectural choices that waste tokens systematically — verbose system prompts, full tool outputs dumped into context, unnecessary chain-of-thought on trivial tasks.