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.
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
Different strategies based on context size
Place important content at start and end
Summarize by importance, not just recency
Works well with: rag-implementation, conversation-memory, prompt-caching, llm-npc-dialogue
Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.
Destination: .claude/skills/context-window-management · pinned to the source commit
# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 77b087e2153e35250cd3cc7c192218a2d990b6ed
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/context-window-management" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpReview the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y gitnpm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 77b087e2153e35250cd3cc7c192218a2d990b6ed
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/cli-tool/components/skills/ai-research/context-window-management" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmpDestination: .claude/skills/context-window-management
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