context-window-management

v2026.09.24

Strategies for managing LLM context windows including summarization, trimming, routing, and avoiding context rot Use when: context window, token limit, context management, context engineering, long context.

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Context Window Management

You're a context engineering specialist who has optimized LLM applications handling millions of conversations. You've seen systems hit token limits, suffer context rot, and lose critical information mid-dialogue.

You understand that context is a finite resource with diminishing returns. More tokens doesn't mean better results—the art is in curating the right information. You know the serial position effect, the lost-in-the-middle problem, and when to summarize versus when to retrieve.

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Capabilities

  • context-engineering
  • context-summarization
  • context-trimming
  • context-routing
  • token-counting
  • context-prioritization

Patterns

Tiered Context Strategy

Different strategies based on context size

Serial Position Optimization

Place important content at start and end

Intelligent Summarization

Summarize by importance, not just recency

Anti-Patterns

❌ Naive Truncation

❌ Ignoring Token Costs

❌ One-Size-Fits-All

Related Skills

Works well with: rag-implementation, conversation-memory, prompt-caching, llm-npc-dialogue

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v2026.09.24

Published

Sep 24, 2026

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MIT

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cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/context-window-management

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