[ewoodrich]

Yes, either through passing the full context of the current task/conversation to a new model to continue working from that point on, or through the intermediary step of the plan document generated by Gemini or whichever larger model that is then passed back to 4.1 to implement.

The latter is a commonly recommended strategy in general for any large task even with more powerful models to keep context manageable and allow recovering easily if on step 9/10 the LLM loses it and starts mangling all the previous work it did. That way you don't have to start all over from the last good checkpoint or commit.