A technique of [[Context management]]: [^1] > 1. When we **fold context**, we **diverge**, exploring separate paths in separate [[Context window|context windows]]. > 2. After exploring a solution space, we **converge**, comparing what we have learned, synthetizing everything together. It is actually [[Double diamond]] model, which usually is divided into 2 steps: - research - development Also folding is similar to compression, and [[Compression is cognition]]. It is especially useful in terms of [[Multi-agent second brain]] where by deciding what to forget (and save) and when to recall, an [[AI agent]] demonstrates what it truly understands. [^2] ## Examples ### Learning This approach is generally great for learning[^1], you can create a process like: 1. Go to [[Organism earth]] and get pages for three different philosophers (e.g. [[Marcus Aurelius]], [[Alan Watts]] and [[Richard Feynman]]) 2. Open three terminal windows, have separate [[Claude Code]] read each page 3. Ask some questions about each philosopher 4. Save a summary of each conversation to an `.md` file. 5. `/clear` 6. Have [[Claude Code]] read all three summaries, synthesize, compare and contrast. 7. Save to `synthesis.md`. 8. `/clear` 9. Include `synthesis.md` and have ay other conversation [^1]: https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/folding-context [^2]: https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/06/15/compression