X-10State Representation

How task state is written down decides whether it survives compaction, restarts, and model swaps.

Key insight

Structured state (JSON, checklists, diffs) can be copied verbatim through every compression; prose has to be re-understood every time, and drifts.

Failure mode

Narrative state: each summarization paraphrases the last paraphrase until file names and step counts dissolve.

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