Context Porthole
You know everything about this project. Your agent is about to do a task for it. Count what it actually sees.
In your head — 7 things you know
…plus 3 you already wrote down — they're in the folder below, which is why they're about to go right.
The porthole — everything the agent will know
- Money is whole cents; shares sum to the exact total
- — nothing about tips —
- No spreadsheet-looking grids
- The checklist runs before anything is "done"
This card is the whole delivery. Nothing else exists for it — not the phone call, not week one, not your face when you see a popup.
What came back
Nothing yet — send the task.
Not sent yet
You know 7 things. The porthole card shows 3 written lines and one message. That's the whole delivery.
The porthole is real — it's called the context window. The agent doesn't remember; it re-reads: each session it knows exactly what's in the folder plus what's in your message, and nothing else. So when it gets something wrong, ask first: could it have known? If the answer was in your head, the fix isn't a better scolding — it's a sentence in a file. Fix the folder, not the chat. And the thing that can't be written down? That rides along as you.