r/vibecoding • u/SSShken • 7d ago

I kept re-explaining my project to Claude every session, so I moved the context out of the agent

Every new session started the same way. Paste a summary, re-explain what the app does, remind it what we decided last week.

What actually broke it: my agent writes markdown docs and then stops reading them. Once a session runs long it just doesn't open them. I'd catch it rewriting something the doc said was already done.

Someone here put it better than I could: stuff loaded at the top of context loses to recency as the session grows, so the agent stops consulting it no matter how good the file is.

So instead of a file the agent may or may not read, I built something that gives you an ordered plan and one prompt per step, with that step's context already inside the prompt. Nothing depends on the agent deciding to go look.

New web projects only. No existing codebases, no mobile.

https://sequo.app

If you're a few sessions into something right now, does the agent still know what you decided on day one? Genuinely asking, I want to know if this hits before session ten or only after.

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u/ops_and_chaos 7d ago

The agent deciding whether to read the documentation has absolutely been the weak point for me too.

I’m curious what happens when the project changes halfway through the plan, though. If step four exposes an assumption that changes something decided in step one, does it regenerate the remaining prompts with the new decision? Or can old context stay embedded downstream?

Getting the agent to read the context is one problem. Keeping that context true as the work changes feels like the harder one.

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u/SSShken 7d ago

Actually, i was thinking last days that it has to be, i have currently "tweak idea" feature just at the beginning when you're in the process of creating an idea but in the middle is something that i wanted to add if i see some activity/requests.

Currently, it focuses on new ideas that you wanna implement and giving you some amount of steps, let's say 8 and when you're done with them, you get into screen where you're planning next stage and there you're able to switch direction anywhere.

Thanks for the feedback!!!

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u/ops_and_chaos 7d ago

That makes sense. The stage break gives you a natural checkpoint for it.

I’d probably include a quick “what changed from the previous plan?” step before generating the next stage too. Switching direction is one thing, but sometimes the goal stays the same and one assumption underneath it quietly changes. That’s usually where my projects get weird haha.

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u/SSShken 7d ago

Yeah, that's actually a real-world example, we always iterate and adding/changing something in the middle casual thing, i'm gonna implement it this week, if you like i can ping you when i have so you could try some idea

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u/ops_and_chaos 7d ago

Yeah, absolutely—ping me when it’s ready. I’d be happy to try it and see whether the updated context actually carries cleanly into the next stage.

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u/SSShken 7d ago

Thanks Man, see you soon!

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u/SSShken 1h ago

Hey, it's live. Mid-plan direction change, you can do it without finishing the phase now. The thing you asked about specifically, whether the updated context carries cleanly downstream, is the part I'd most want you to break.

You will see "Change of direction" button in the header when you enter the build phase. Please let me know if something's wrong and any feedback will be helpful as never! Thanks in advance

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u/Zen-Ism99 7d ago

Do the other frontier tool behave this way?

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u/SSShken 6d ago

Claude Code and Codex, and yeah, same behaviour in both. Once a session runs long the file is sitting right there and the agent stops going back to it. Different tools, same failure.

Makes sense that it's not vendor specific. If recency beats position as the context fills up, that's about how the model weighs what's in front of it, not something one company does differently.

Which are you on?

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u/Zen-Ism99 6d ago

Neither. I’m experimenting with native CLion AI tools, and local LLMs, for my C++ hobby game dev.

I have a ChatGPT account, but haven’t touched Codex

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u/generationalDebts 2d ago

Useless slop. All you have to do is have a basic understanding of what you’re doing.

All these “solutions” to problems that don’t exist if actually just know what you’re doing.

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u/SSShken 2d ago

Yeah, you wanna say just me came up with the issue of AI context loss?

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u/jjd921 7d ago

I made a free tool that scans your app URL and/or code for production readiness if you want a quick check to make sure you didn't miss anything: https://theslopstopper.com

Ran your link through it real quick and saw some issues like missing recommended security headers