Pattern
Long-Running Agent Harness
Carry a task across many context windows by having a first session write a feature list, a progress log and a start-up script, and having every later session read them, finish one increment, test it, commit it and update the log.
Classification Looping across sessions (one initializer session, then incremental sessions)
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