AI dictionary

Context Reset

Clearing an agent's active context window and starting a fresh run from a structured handoff artifact.

Plain English

Instead of compressing a crowded conversation, you give the next agent a clean slate plus the notes it needs.

Example

A long-running coding harness ends a session, writes the completed work and next steps to files, then starts a new agent run from those artifacts.

Why it matters

Context resets can reduce context-window drift and premature wrap-up behavior, but they depend on high-quality handoff state.