https://appcoding.com/tags/context-management/ Recent content in Context Management on App Coding Hugo en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/context-window-management-as-a-database-ask-for-12000-tokens-get-the-most-useful-ones/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://appcoding.com/context-window-management-as-a-database-ask-for-12000-tokens-get-the-most-useful-ones/ <p>An agent is ninety tool calls into a refactor. Step 12 was a grep that returned 52 KB, and all of it is still in the prompt. The user&rsquo;s instruction from step 1, &ldquo;never touch db/migrations&rdquo;, fell out of the window ten steps ago, because the framework drops the oldest messages first. The agent edits a migration. Nothing malfunctioned; the truncation rule did exactly what it was written to do.</p>