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STEP 17 / 24

D2 SLOT-FILL

DRAG INTO THE SLOTS

You're 14 turns in with Echo coordinating cargo for the next jump. The conversation is heavy and the model is starting to drift. Instead of adding more turns (more tokens, more drift), you want to summarize the current state in a single message and continue from that summary.

Drag each fact into the right slot of the recap. If you skip a slot, the summary loses a decision and the next conversation will get confused.

Decisions already locked

Drop here

Questions still open

Drop here

Constraints that don't change

Drop here

Last action agreed

Drop here

Next step

Drop here

PIECES

Total cargo mass: 4.2 tons. confirmed on turn 6.

Priority crate: deck 3, A-class. confirmed on turn 8.

Loading route not decided yet: aisle A or B?

Loading window: closes at 22:00 UTC. cannot move.

Echo confirmed the loading team starts in 15 minutes.

I'm going to confirm the loading route before the team starts.

GUEST MODE

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Costs 1 heart

Every extra turn is a tax. the summary pays it once

As a conversation grows, two things happen at the same time:

Token cost. Each turn carries the whole prior history. Turn 20 costs ~20x more than turn 1.
Drift. More history = more room for the model to "forget", contradict, or invent. You saw this in earlier lessons.

The solution is the compaction summary: at some point between turn 10 and 15, pause the conversation, write ONE message that captures the full current state, and continue from there (ideally in a new conversation, or as explicit reference).

The 5 slots of a useful summary

A useful summary isn't "a paragraph about what we talked about". It has structure:

Decisions already locked. What's closed and not up for debate.
Questions still open. What's left to resolve.
Constraints that don't change. Hard data: dates, limits, requirements.
Last action agreed. What was the last thing that happened.
Next step. What needs to happen now.

If any of the 5 is missing, the summary loses value. Without locked decisions, the model re-litigates them. Without open questions, you lose track of what's missing. Without next step, the summary is just a postcard.

When to compress

Signal	Action
The model repeats things you already said	Time to summarize.
You start forgetting turn 3	Time to summarize.
The conversation passes 12-15 turns	Summarize preventively.
Next 3 turns will be a different topic	Compact what's current before switching.

Advanced trick: ask the model to BUILD the structured summary in 5 slots itself. "Summarize this conversation into these 5 buckets: locked decisions, open questions, constraints, last action, next step." You check it's right, save it, use it as the opening of the next turn (or the next conversation).

On the right, a 14-turn conversation in compressed form. Drag each fact into the right slot.