Context Window Management
Strategies for managing LLM context windows including summarization, trimming, routing...
Install
npx skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill context-window-management -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- davila7/claude-code-templates33k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 281 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
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.
Context Window Management
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.
Your cor
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
