The core insight here: - We know agents are great at filesystems because the models have been trained on coding tasks which operate on large filesystems - So, we all migrated our agent inputs to have file system representation - And this *also* extends to past context. Previous conversations: Goes in the filesystem The whole frickin context pre compaction: Into the filesystem so its still there after compaction Agent todo list: Filesystem This may not be how we build agents forever, but it's the right starting point now
Learn about how we use the filesystem to improve context efficiency for tools, MCP servers, skills, terminals, chat history, and more. cursor.com/blog/dynamic-c…