{"slug":"context-lifecycle-for-ai-systems","versions":[{"slug":"context-lifecycle-for-ai-systems","version":"0.2.0","updated_at":"2026-04-10T00:00:00.000Z","saved_at":"2026-04-13T03:12:57.056Z","change_summary":"Expanded the consolidation section with the biological sleep-loop analogy and event-driven memory orchestration.","summary":"Why good AI systems should not treat context as one giant blob, and why summary, consolidation, and drill-down layers matter.","compact_summary":"Context should behave more like a lifecycle than a dump: short-term working state, compact summaries, longer-term memory, and periodic consolidation each serve different jobs and should not be collapsed into one context window.","kind":"essay","confidence":"high","estimated_tokens":607,"word_count":449,"content_hash":"7b155fbcfb547b0fb074cdfa4bed884e35a5fb7665294d9cb891f7d82044c98b"}]}