I have a "wrap up the session" skill that I use when the session gets >50% of its token use. It commits everything, updates documentation, writes a handoff doc, makes sure the todo.md is up to date, etc.
Still works better than compaction.
Still works better than compaction.
Mentioned by the author in a recent HN thread, I'm also experimenting with automating this through a tiny issue tracker called epiq [1] that basically lets the agent sessions themselves file tickets with the follow-on tasks and relevant handoff right in them, and then a dispatcher automatically launches those tickets into new agent sessions.
I assume Anthropic & friends have noticed this as well and will change how they handle long running sessions, so the gap will likely close over time, but this is definitely where things stand today.
On another environment I've been doing something roughly similar, but have integrated Hindsight as a kind of all-in-one of the above and am still trying to suss out the best compaction strategy.
Same teamates also post 'Sol deleted my git repo!' or 'Sorry, ignore those 300 PR comments i was just looking!' ~once a month.