Skills Artificial Intelligence Context Window Management

Context Window Management

v20261107
context-window-management
Strategies for managing LLM context windows, including summarization, trimming, routing, token counting, and avoiding context rot in long conversations.
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Overview

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.

Your cor

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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Name context-window-management
Version v20261107
Size 1.42KB
Updated At 2026-11-08
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