Context Engineering: Stop Agents from Choking on Their Own Data

AI agents fail silently when tool outputs exceed context windows. The Memory Pointer Pattern stores large data in agent state and returns 52-byte pointers instead of 214KB payloads.

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Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

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