Patterns · Vol. 15

Pattern

Context compression patterns

Compress context content when the relevant material exceeds the available context budget, using summarization, extraction, hierarchical retrieval, or compression-specific models, with explicit awareness of the trade-offs each compression approach introduces.

Classification — Reducing context size when decision-relevant content exceeds the available budget.

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