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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.

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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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is context-window-management?

context-window-management is an expert AI persona designed to improve your coding workflow. 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. It provides senior-level context directly within your IDE.

How do I install the context-window-management skill in Cursor or Windsurf?

To install the context-window-management skill, download the package, extract the files to your project's .cursor/skills directory, and type @context-window-management in your editor chat to activate the expert instructions.

Is context-window-management free to download?

Yes, the context-window-management AI persona is completely free to download and integrate into compatible Agentic IDEs like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot, and Anthropic MCP servers.

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context-window-management

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.

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IDE Invocation

@context-window-management
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Platform

IDE Native

Price

Free Download

Setup Instructions

Cursor & Windsurf

  1. Download the zip file above.
  2. Extract to .cursor/skills
  3. Type @context-window-management in editor chat.

Copilot & ChatGPT

Copy the instructions from the panel on the left and paste them into your custom instructions setting.

"Adding this context-window-management persona to my Cursor workspace completely changed the quality of code my AI generates. Saves me hours every week."

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Alex Dev
Senior Engineer, TechCorp