Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

As of 16 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 30 of 30 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.11095.

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Observation 910d2e52-dd34-48d3-bb0b-35dc6e98a5f8 · outbound

This paper cites Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding

Reference 1

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Observation 378c3b2f-b517-408b-af6a-d764d9de2f07 · outbound

This paper cites Psychology of Learning and Motivation , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Psychology of Learning and Motivation , volume =

Reference 2

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Observation 3b6c658e-75ce-4237-a783-d47225f39eed · outbound

This paper cites Trends in Cognitive Sciences , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Trends in Cognitive Sciences , volume =

Reference 3

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Observation a544c0a3-4451-4f71-bb49-57a45d94b79b · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , volume =

Reference 4

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Observation 4e702591-f911-45c2-a9eb-3310f44d9f35 · outbound

This paper cites 2000 , publisher =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2000 , publisher =

Reference 5

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Observation d56823a9-985e-4173-9ac4-872fd6f05dec · outbound

This paper cites Administrative Science Quarterly , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Administrative Science Quarterly , volume =

Reference 6

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Observation 97e64a8d-4b56-44ce-b4bf-c12f0ecaf565 · outbound

This paper cites American Journal of Sociology , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding American Journal of Sociology , volume =

Reference 7

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Observation fd315594-b4d9-4b78-9318-765e977f084f · outbound

This paper cites Demography , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Demography , volume =

Reference 8

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Observation 990fe05f-dd8a-420d-9ccb-ae54a6577a7e · outbound

This paper cites Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Prompting in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Prompt Evolution in Software Repositories

Reference 9

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Observation 2314dba3-bf7d-4137-b05a-3c3f68408434 · outbound

This paper cites and Baltes, Sebastian and Treude, Christoph , year =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding and Baltes, Sebastian and Treude, Christoph , year =

Reference 10

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Observation 42a72327-57bf-48f9-8197-4c8321f9d9ff · outbound

This paper cites FSFM: A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Selective Forgetting of Agent Memory.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding FSFM: A Biologically-Inspired Framework for Selective Forgetting of Agent Memory

Reference 11

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Observation b95e62b6-62b9-48f8-88da-947ff9221da6 · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the IEEE , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the IEEE , volume =

Reference 12

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Observation b3fc2d3d-1cdd-48a2-9aa0-ff90ad7aa5b0 · outbound

This paper cites 2023 , eprint =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2023 , eprint =

Reference 13

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Observation d9af424f-0473-47cf-bc82-42e96c1e3487 · outbound

This paper cites WildIFEval: Instruction Following in the Wild.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding WildIFEval: Instruction Following in the Wild

Reference 14

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Observation 57e41b0d-d3cd-4e97-893a-a8a080aa2555 · outbound

This paper cites 2024 , url =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2024 , url =

Reference 15

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Observation 5b5775ca-eef3-4275-b34a-bd220b2b74ce · outbound

This paper cites MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems

Reference 16

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Observation aec77e9c-1021-44e1-952c-c443b891ead6 · outbound

This paper cites Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Mem0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Scalable Long-Term Memory

Reference 17

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Observation f440f434-882f-4ed6-aea8-86f1da7424c0 · outbound

This paper cites 2025 , eprint =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2025 , eprint =

Reference 18

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Observation 196742d5-9be3-4c48-aaf0-d892698b5a36 · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of CVPR , year =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of CVPR , year =

Reference 19

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Observation 184019e6-5967-46b6-9046-405c3062c9a1 · outbound

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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Unresolved cited work

Reference 20

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Observation 40ee888a-220b-4b89-ae68-20f47f89a235 · outbound

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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Unresolved cited work

Reference 21

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Observation 2e954d42-167d-4f02-8930-830252adbc6b · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) , pages =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) , pages =

Reference 22

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Observation 047d9714-a54b-4bfa-8a6d-d83d2c59e882 · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of ACL , year =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of ACL , year =

Reference 23

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This paper cites Proceedings of AAAI , year =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of AAAI , year =

Reference 24

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Observation cf114da4-d6f6-4af6-a764-7f79761a18ac · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , year =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , year =

Reference 25

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Observation 18620b64-193b-41e4-952b-8f5207b9f752 · outbound

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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2011 , howpublished =

Reference 26

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Observation d4a2b978-bc91-4ebb-b19f-db9a4b72d7fd · outbound

This paper cites The Computer Journal , volume =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding The Computer Journal , volume =

Reference 27

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This paper cites 2004 , publisher =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding 2004 , publisher =

Reference 28

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Observation 484f1768-e524-44a6-a8f9-b4ef240f9fec · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , pages =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) , pages =

Reference 29

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Observation 112ae0ea-805b-47d1-8032-1ec2da29beff · outbound

This paper cites Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , series =.

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , series =

Reference 30

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