A single Claude agent accumulates extensive context over a long research task, and response quality degrades as the context grows. Which pattern best manages this issue for a single-agent system?

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B. Maintain a structured scratchpad: a compact, updated summary of key facts that replaces verbose raw conversation history as context grows. The scratchpad pattern maintains a compact, structured record of essential information that grows much more slowly than raw conversation history. As the conversation accumulates detail, the scratchpad is updated to capture key findings and decisions in a concise format, replacing verbose history. This keeps context manageable without losing critical information. Option A adds to context. Option C unpredictably discards important context. Option D addresses latency, not context quality.

A single Claude agent accumulates extensive context over a long research task, and response quality degrades as the context grows. Which pattern best manages this issue for a single-agent system?

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