Show HN: Context Surgeon – Let AI agents edit their own context window

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, context-management, token-optimization

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Context Surgeon is a TypeScript tool that gives AI agents (like those in Codex CLI and Claude Code) the ability to surgically edit their own context window via evict, replace, and restore commands. It's interesting because it addresses the critical problem of token waste and context bloat in long-running AI agent sessions by letting the agent manage its memory intelligently, rather than relying on crude auto-compaction.

Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers, prompt engineers

Repository: https://github.com/jackfruitsandwich/context-surgeon · TypeScript · MIT

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