# context-degradation

> Claude/Codex skill by [@muratcankoylan](https://omgskills.com/library/muratcankoylan/index.md) · 18k stars · Updated 2026-10-12

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

```sh
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-degradation
```

## From 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.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/muratcankoylan/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/skills/context-degradation/
- GitHub: https://github.com/muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering
- Author: [@muratcankoylan](https://omgskills.com/library/muratcankoylan/index.md)

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