When you know where the context lives, stop letting the agent guess.
Agent-driven file discovery burns turns and fills the window with wrong guesses. A parameterized priming command loads exactly the right files in one shot.
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An agent runs forever or quits one bug short. You need two brakes.
An unattended agent loop has no instinct for 'done.' Give it an iteration ceiling it can't argue past and a completion sentinel it can raise.
An agent watching its context fill rushes the ending. Take the wheel.
When the window fills, agents cut corners and auto-compaction throws away the wrong things. Author a handoff file, eyeball it, restart in a session you control.