context-manager

# Context Manager Manage the scarcest resource in the LLM OS: **context window (RAM)**. ## Usage Template **Prompt** ```text Use context-manager for this task. Estimate token budget, choose what to keep, what to summarize, and what to drop. ``` **Use Case** - Preparing a long task, large document set, or multi-step agent workflow without overrunning context. **Expected Result** - The agent produces a context budget, priority order, truncation plan, and cost-aware prompt assembly. **Output Example** - A table of keep/summarize/drop decisions with estimated tokens and retrieval priority. **Verification Case** - The final context plan names included sources, excluded sources, and the reason for each exclusion. **Verified Effect** - Long or messy context becomes a scoped prompt plan with lower token waste and clearer retrieval priorities. ## Success Metrics - Output includes an estimated token budget and a keep/summarize/drop table. - Each excluded source has a reason, and critical context has a retrieval path. - Final prompt plan fits the target context window with margin. ## When to Use - "Context is full", "too many tokens", "slow responses" - Before complex multi-step tasks - Designing prompt templates with variable-length content - "Optimize my prompts" or "reduce token cost" - Before ingesting large documents --- ## Core Principles ### 0. Concrete Ideas Buy Speed (Andrew Ng) > "When you're vague, you're almost always right. When you're concrete, you may be r...