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Budgeting the Context Window: A Token Accounting Method
Split the window into fixed, retrieved and conversational budgets, put real numbers against each, and enforce them. The arithmetic is simple and almost nobody does it — which is why so many agents degrade at turn fifteen for reasons the team cannot name.
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Context Engineering: The Discipline That Replaced Prompt Engineering
Once an agent has tools, memory and retrieval, the job stops being how you word the instruction and becomes what occupies the window on every turn. That is a different skill, with different failure modes, and it is the one production work actually demands.