You are four hours into a refactor. Claude knows the codebase, understands the decisions you made this morning, and has been tracking three open threads. Then your laptop sleeps. Or you hit the context limit. Or you start a new chat because the old one got slow.
Gone. All of it.
The next session starts cold. You spend twenty minutes re-explaining what exists and why. Claude makes a suggestion that contradicts a decision you locked in two hours ago because it has no idea that conversation happened. You catch it, correct it, and keep going, but the trust is eroded. The flow is broken.
This is not a Claude problem. It is an architecture problem. And it has a fix.
Why Context Collapse Happens
