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8/2/2026
The original title is "ThoughtDAG: Visualizing and auditing AI context compaction as a parallel graph"

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

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