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Manus Context Engineering: File-System as Unlimited Memory, Todo.md for Attention Recitation, and Reversible Compression for 50-Step Agent Tasks
Manus published their production context engineering playbook revealing three key patterns: using the file system as externalized memory (unlimited, persistent, structured), creating and continuously rewriting todo.md to manipulate model attention across ~50 tool calls per task (preventing goal drift), and reversible compression that drops content while preserving retrieval URLs. The insight: no amount of raw model capability replaces deliberate memory, environment, and feedback architecture.
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