The Context Cockpit

Budget · Lifecycle · Drift — one panel synthesizing Lecture 03. Drag the turn slider to watch context rot grow; flip Engineered mode to see disciplined practices snap it back.

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Engineered mode
How to play: Drag the Turn slider — drift grows, AGENTS.md falls behind, the rot badge appears. Toggle Engineered mode — atomic state writes (✓) light up, the loop sends a PR-feedback arrow to refresh AGENTS.md, and the drift snaps back to green. Hover any band or lifecycle phase for details.
Context window (100%) each band changes at its own cadence STATIC · 20% AGENTS.md · architecture slow heartbeat ♥ TASK · 30% spec · acceptance criteria medium pulse ♥♥ STATE · 20% JSON / YAML · atomic fast pulse ♥♥♥ ✓ CODE · 30% files · interfaces · tests very fast ♥♥♥♥ Context Development Lifecycle Generate Evaluate Distribute Observe Improve PR feedback → AGENTS.md Repository reality git timeline keeps moving src/api/client.ts AGENTS.md specs/feature-42.md .state/progress.json git timeline → ⚠ Context rot detected AGENTS.md → 0 commits behind state file → last write 0 turns ago ✓ Context in sync atomic writes · evals ✓ · re-synced in sync