Context Debt Threshold

Context Debt Threshold is the point where an assistant's accumulated memory stops helping and starts costing. Personal assistants build persistent context by capturing screen content, transcripts, files, and inboxes, and that store compounds daily. Early on, more context means better answers. Past a threshold, retrieval precision falls: stale quotes, superseded scopes, and closed threads resurface as if current, so a draft reply cites a rate card the client renegotiated two quarters ago. For agencies the threshold matters because assistants sit on top of project management and CRM systems, and a wrong retrieval propagates into client-facing correspondence before anyone reviews it. MyHandler's on-device index and Jace's inbox rules both inherit this curve. The practical discipline is pruning: archive completed engagements, expire rate and scope references, and re-verify any figure an assistant surfaces before it reaches a retainer deliverable.