Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear · chapter 5: Sessions, Context, and Memory
The session lifecycle
2026-10-27
Work streams to disk continuously; compaction keeps the window usable; fork branches an experiment; resume and export pick the history back up.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 5.1), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
Figure 5.1 puts the whole lifecycle in one picture: a session is born, works, compacts as it fills, forks when you experiment, persists to disk continuously, and can be resumed or exported at any point.
Recap
- The idea: Work streams to disk continuously; compaction keeps the window usable; fork branches an experiment; resume and export pick the history back up.
- The picture: Figure 5.1, from chapter 5 ("Sessions, Context, and Memory") of Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in Kimi Code Made Crystal Clear.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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