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Long Claude sessions rarely fail because they're "too long." They fail because the context gets crowded, old branches stay active, instructions get repeated, decisions disappear into scroll history, and the next step stops being obvious.
Most people respond by either dumping everything back in (bloat) or deleting aggressively (losing what actually mattered). Neither works well.
What helps is treating context like a system with states: keep, compress, reference, archive, remove, or restart. Once you separate stable rules from current state and one-off inputs, cleanup stops being guesswork, it becomes a 10-minute process instead of a 45-minute re-explanation.
I put together a free field guide on exactly this: how to audit a messy session, classify what's active, and rebuild a clean working set without losing what the session needed to stay correct.
Grab it here: https://pedronagatomo.gumroad.com/l/rtfxy
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CONGRATS
THIS IS A HUGE MILESTONE
I'm not where I want to be but I'm far from where I started
So happy to have reached this milestone
Wow congratulation