What is Context Window?
The limited amount of text an AI model can consider at once; when it fills up, earlier code may be dropped.
window full · first file dropped
A context window is…
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If the agent forgot the earlier file, the context window may have dropped it, so re-attach the key snippet.
In the illustration
File sheets feed in from the front and the carriage frame holds four; as a fifth sheet enters, the earliest file slides off the back into the drop bin.
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