Claude Gets Worse the Longer You Chat: the Free Handoff Prompt That Moves Your Chat Into a Fresh One
Long chats make every AI model less reliable, Claude included. This copy-paste prompt has Claude write a short handoff note so you can start fresh without losing a single decision.
Researchers tested 18 AI models, Claude among them, and found the same thing in every one: the longer the text they had to work with, the less reliable the answers got. Claude's own team calls it context rot.
In a long chat that means the rule you set an hour ago gets missed, an old number comes back, or a decision you changed slips back to the first version.
The fix
Claude's team describes the fix as compaction: when a conversation gets long, summarize what matters and start a new window with that summary. This prompt does it for you in any Claude chat.
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