Context Rot -- Your Agent Has Been in This Chat Too Long

Your agent remembers everything except which parts still matter.

Context Rot diagnoses long-running chats, project threads, and handoffs that have accumulated stale assumptions, rejected drafts, repeated tool output, and contradictory instructions. It separates what is still canonical from what needs verification, resolution, or retirement.

What you get

• A verdict: FRESH, STALE AROUND THE EDGES, CONTEXT ROT, or COMPOST THE THREAD
• Canonical facts and decisions that still affect the work
• Stale observations that need current verification
• Contradictions preserved for explicit resolution
• Context bloat that can safely stay out of the next session
• A compact restart packet with objective, constraints, sources, open decision, and next action

It does not delete files or memory, flatten disagreements, or carry credentials forward. Old context is not automatically bad; unsupported context that keeps changing decisions is.

Use Context Steward for durable memory governance. Use Context Rot when the immediate thread has become the problem.