https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/context-window/ Recent content in Context-Window on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/context-window-is-a-cache/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/context-window-is-a-cache/ Treating the context window as append-only memory is how agents get slow, expensive, and quietly wrong. The fix is to run it like a cache with a budget and an eviction policy: decide what earns its tokens every turn. Here’s the cost math, the accuracy failure mode, and a working context manager.