[justinclift]

> it got stuck in the usual endless loop talking about stuff more than doing stuff

That's the kind of behaviour I've seen in Claude Code (Opus 4.8) when it's context space is over the 40-50% range.

I tend to keep an eye on the context usage (ie `/context`) quite a lot, and generally see good results as long as the context usage is ~30% or below.

Which isn't heaps, considering having to ensure it has the required docs/stuff it needs can take 15-20% of context by itself.