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Context window
The token capacity of one model request, including the input and reserved output. An agent run may make many such requests. Tools compress, summarize, or drop content to fit; what survives depends on the system's context-management rules.
Discussed in the book
- Chapter 1: The Orchestrator's Toolkit — 1.3 Inference engines and models mentioned 4×
- Chapter 2: The Instructions Are Part of the System — 2.1 Layers beneath the prompt mentioned 4×
- Chapter 2: The Instructions Are Part of the System — 2.5 Diagnosing the environment mentioned 4×
- Chapter 5: Orchestration in Practice — 5.6 Concrete artifacts — what exists, and why it is not enough mentioned 2×
- Chapter 1: The Orchestrator's Toolkit — 1.1 The technology under discussion mentioned once
- Chapter 1: The Orchestrator's Toolkit — 1.6 Tool interfaces and actuation mentioned once
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