Hidden Scratchpad

Entity ID: ent-20260419-c337e289f8f5
Type: concept
Scope: shared
Status: active
Aliases: analysis scratchpad, hidden compaction reasoning

Description

Pattern used during autocompaction: the model generates its reasoning inside an XML tag that is stripped via regex replace (/[\s\S]*?<\/analysis>/) before injection into subsequent context. Only the

product is kept, so reasoning does not consume future context budget.

Key claims

Compaction preservation rules becoming public is not patchable
tag stripped via regex before injection

Relations

Compaction Pipeline --[uses]--> Hidden Scratchpad
Straiker Compaction-Persistence Attack Model --[informed_by]--> Hidden Scratchpad

Sources

src-20260419-16b155f4f619