The Continuity Ledger is a prompt engineering technique for LLMs like GPT-5.2 Codex, using a structured Markdown file to track goals, state, assumptions, and uncertainties. It enables coherent long-running tasks (hours ) by persisting high-level state across context compaction. Capabilities: Complex software development, long-term research, multi-step planning, and reliable agentic workflows. Advantages: Superior state persistence, consistency, scalability, error recovery, and efficiency vs. traditional history-based methods. Simple (no extra frameworks), cost-effective, and robust for single-agent long tasks.
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Prompting GPT-5.2 Codex for long-running tasks: