Week 7 · Agents · about 3 minutes
What you will be able to do
Summarise old tool output so Helix agent context stays small enough to stay cheap and coherent.
The idea
Keep recent tool results verbatim. Fold older ones into a short running summary.
Memory hygiene is a cost control and a quality control.
if token_count(messages) > budget:
messages = [system, summarise(messages[:-4]), *messages[-4:]]If everything is remembered in full, nothing important is.
Key takeaways
- Budget the context.
- Compact old tool noise.
- Preserve the goal and recent steps.
Part of the Forward Deployed Engineer roadmap. New to the role? Start with what a Forward Deployed Engineer does.