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8/2/2026

The original title is "ThoughtDAG: Visualizing and auditing AI context compaction as a parallel graph"
Original: Context compaction happens in the dark. I made it happen on a map.
Short summary
ThoughtDAG is a graph-based AI conversation tool that makes context compaction visible and auditable. Instead of silently summarizing history, it scans the conversation graph for collapsible runs, preserves human-marked decisions verbatim, and builds a parallel condensed tree alongside the original. Users can compare answers from both trees to verify the compression lost nothing important.
- •ThoughtDAG visualizes context compaction as a parallel graph rather than a black-box summary
- •Structural rules protect decisions, highlights, and the working frontier from being collapsed
- •Users can test compression fidelity by querying both the original and condensed trees simultaneously
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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