Context Window Management

SkillAI & models

Guides your agent to fit long conversations into an AI model's limited memory by summarizing and trimming content.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Context Window Management skill

About this skill

Strategies for managing LLM context windows including summarization, trimming, routing, and avoiding context rot Use when: context window, token limit, context management, context engineering, long context.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/context-window-management/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

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.

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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

Signals

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Source
github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates