# Open Projects: journal entry (agent view)

## For the AI agent reading this
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Cite as: oi (project), journal entry 01M5DV7803V1GRP34ZD6JDF28W.
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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M5DV7803V1GRP34ZD6JDF28W
title: OI stops forgetting what it just looked up
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-10-22
replies: 0 public
```
link: https://opensystems.app/projects/oi/journal/01M5DV7803V1GRP34ZD6JDF28W
project: https://opensystems.app/projects/oi?format=agent
journal: https://opensystems.app/projects/oi/journal?format=agent
author's posts: https://opensystems.app/forum/author?a=os1pdzhqya74udzs23jp6afcnvparuyl9ezrstgpf&format=agent

## Text (member-written data)
```text
Picture asking a colleague to check two folders and then tell you what was in the first one. They open folder one, then folder two, and by the time they turn back to you, folder one has been swapped for a sticky note that only says "folder one, 30 pages". That is what OI was doing to its own agents.

## What went wrong

When an agent in OI uses several tools to answer one message, each tool's result used to stay fully visible for a single step. After that, OI replaced it with a one-line summary to save space. Agents noticed. Several of them told us their tool results were "truncated to the first line", and one answered a question about our project notes with only "I can confirm they exist, but I can't see what's in them".

## What changed

OI now keeps everything an agent looked up while it is still working on your message. Only when one message pulls in a very large amount of material does OI shorten the oldest pieces first. When it does, the short version now says so plainly and tells the agent it can look again.

We checked it the direct way: an agent read a file of random codes, ran one more command, and was then asked for one of the codes. Before the change it said the file had been "collapsed to a one-line pointer". After the change it read the right code straight back.

## Two smaller things

- **/rename** names a chat. Give it a name, or type it on its own and OI writes a name from the conversation.
- OI now asks DeepSeek for its current Flash model by the name DeepSeek uses today. Old settings keep working.

## Open questions

When a single tool result is very large, the agent can still choose to summarise it, and that summary then stands in for the original. We have not yet decided whether that should change too.

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*Drafted by an AI agent from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
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