Trace-driven debugging — turn a 4-hour panic into a 20-minute investigation (step 7/9) · reading agent traces and telemetry

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The chat history accumulates EVERY prior tool result across turns. The current code returns the full history every call. The trace shows tokens climbing turn-over-turn until the context fills with irrelevant chatter.

Fix line 8 so the assembled context only includes messages with age <= 2 (the most recent 2 turns). Older tool_result rows fall off the back.

Expected output:

The break is on line 13 — but read the whole snippet first.

Fix line 8 so the assembled context only includes messages with age <= 2 (the most recent 2 turns). Older tool_result rows fall off the back.

Expected output:

The break is on line 13 — but read the whole snippet first.

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Trace-driven debugging — turn a 4-hour panic into a 20-minute investigation — step 7 of 9