Carry Four Context Levers in Your Head
Recall the four practical levers for fixing context problems: budget, retrieve, cache, and refresh.
When the prompt feels bloated and the answer misses a buried detail, which lever comes first? Budget the working set. Shrink permanent context, keep only what must stay live, and move the rest to retrieval or summary. Retrieval vs dumping the whole corpus Which one produces a cleaner working set? Retrieval wins when the answer depends on a subset of the corpus and freshness matters. “Why are we spending time on cache structure?” A teammate sees caching as finance trivia. Your line Because cache misses usually reveal that our prompt layers are mixed together. Fixing the structure makes the workflow…
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