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Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions.

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Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents become trapped in "idea basins" as their chat context grows, and proposed a "Fork-and-Flush" method that clears the chat history while keeping the workspace.

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“Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents get trapped in what they call "idea basins" because of their growing chat context, local solution regions they can't escape.”
The Decoder, 12 Oct 2026, 16:10.

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