context-degradation
This skill should be used for diagnosing and mitigating context degradation: lost-in-middle failures, context poisoning, context clash, context confusion, attention-pattern issues, and agent performance degradation caused by accumulated or conflicting context.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering:skills/context-degradation" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering /tmp/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering && ln -s /tmp/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering/skills/context-degradation ~/.claude/skills/context-degradationFrom README
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.
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