Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction
Why relying on your IDE's automatic context summarizer is a trap—and how 1980s Unix boot scripts give autonomous agents an indestructible memory. "Needs a system, right? Take notes. Specific notes... You can't trust a memory." — Leonard Shelby, Memento (2000) If you use modern agentic coding environments—whether Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Cursor, or Gemini CLI—on real production tickets, you already know the feeling of dread when a complex session crosses 200,000 tokens. A tiny system ban…