You can work around a lot of the memory issues for large and complex tasks just by making the agent keep work logs. Critical context to keep throughout large pieces of work include decisions, conversations, investigations, plans and implementations - a normal developer should be tracking these and it's sensible to have the agent track them too in a way that survives compaction.

I set up my directives to maintain a work log for all work that I do. I instruct Claude Code to maintain a full log of the conversation, all commands executed including results, all failures as well as successes, all learnings and discoveries, as well as a plan/task list including details of what's next. When context is getting full, I do a /clear and start the new session by re-reading the work log and it is able to jump right back into action without confusion.

Work logs are great because the context becomes portable - you can share it between different tools or engineers and can persist the context for reuse later if needed.

There's some jank relating to fractional scaling on Wayland unfortunately, but I keep one monitor without scaling so when I want to play I just launch the puzzles on that.

Depends on what you are trying to achieve though.

SMTP is an example of this succeeding, as problematic as that protocol is.

[1]: https://bevyengine.org/