Agent Context Manager (ctx) has three operations:
/ctx-recall -> background global recall job
/ctx-compact -> background current-session compact job
/ctx-jobs -> review/apply/discard control plane
The design principle is:
Recall globally. Compact locally. Apply deliberately.
/ctx-recall searches across local CodeBuddy, Claude Code, and Codex logs. It creates a job immediately, runs retrieval and summarization in a background process, then stores the result in a local file-based job store.
/ctx-compact only compacts the current session. It should not compact all history. Compact is a local operation on the active working context.
/ctx-jobs is the safety layer. It separates candidate context from applied context. This prevents noisy recall or poor summaries from automatically polluting the current session.