context-degradation
Diagnoses and reduces context failures: lost-in-the-middle, poisoning, clash, confusion and performance loss from accumulated context.
- Kind
- Skill
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Agent Skills for Context Engineering @ 9ff0c99108b3
- Path
- skills/context-degradation/SKILL.md
- Jobs
- Context management, Debugging
- Topics
- Agents & MCP
Credit
- Made by
- muratcankoylan
- Original
- github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineerin…
- License
- MIT
Listed by Skill Manifest; not made by us.
InstallInstall it from a plugin marketplace.
/plugin install context-engineering@context-engineering-marketplace
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- .claude/skills/context-degradation/ (the skill folder)
- 1 file(s) the skill refers to
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
- None found
- Needs secrets
- None found
- Source revision
- 9ff0c99108b3
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- 12 Oct 2026
- Review
- Reviewed
Found by a static scan of the stored text; nothing is run. “None found” is not a guarantee, so read what you install before you run it.
- Only the main file is read; other files in the folder are not scanned
# Context Degradation Patterns Diagnose and fix context failures before they cascade. Context degradation is not binary — it is a continuum that manifests through five distinct, predictable patterns: lost-in-middle, poisoning, distraction, confusion, and clash. Each pattern has specific detection signals and mitigation strategies. Treat degradation as an engineering problem with measurable thresholds, not an unpredictable failure mode. ## When to Activate Activate this skill when: - Agent performance degrades unexpectedly during long conversations - Debugging cases where agents produce incorrect or irrelevant outputs - Designing systems that must handle large contexts reliably - Evaluating context engineering choices for production systems - Investigating "lost in middle" phenomena in agent outputs - Analyzing context-related failures in agent behavior Do not activate this skill for adjacent work owned by other skills: - Explaining foundational context mechanics without an active failure: `context-fundamentals`. - Applying token-efficiency tactics after the failure pattern is known: `context-optimization`. …