Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now

I'm making a pretty complex project using claude. I tried claude flow and some other orchestrators but they produced garbage. Have found using github issues to track the progress as comments works fairly well, the PR's can get large comment wise (especially if you have gemini code assist, recommeded as another code review judge), so be mindful of that (that will blow the context window). Using a fairly lean CLAUDE.md and a few mcps (context7 and consult7 with gemini for longer lookups). works well too. Although be prepared to tell it to reread CLAUDE.md a few conversations deep as it loses it. It's working fairly well so far, it feels a bit akin to herding cats sometimes and be prepared to actually read the code it's making, or the important bits at least.

your comment reminds me of another one i saw on reddit. someone said they found that using github diff as a way to manage context and reference chat history worked the best for their ai agent. i think he is on to something here.