The context window as a budget you allocate: what to spend it on, how to measure what you spent, what to cut first, and where position in the prompt changes the answer.https://context-augmented.com/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/context-budgets-for-multi-turn-conversations/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/context-budgets-for-multi-turn-conversations/History grows every turn until it crowds out everything else. Window policies, structured state extraction, and why agent loops overflow fastest.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThistorybudgetinghttps://context-augmented.com/blogs/where-in-the-prompt-things-should-go/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/where-in-the-prompt-things-should-go/Position affects whether the model uses what you put there. A default layout, why instructions get repeated at the end, and what prompt caching constrains.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTprompt-ordercachinghttps://context-augmented.com/blogs/what-to-cut-first-when-context-overflows/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/what-to-cut-first-when-context-overflows/A cut order for when the budget doesn't balance: which component gives up space first, why history usually loses to retrieval, and how to degrade visibly.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMToverflowbudgetinghttps://context-augmented.com/blogs/counting-tokens-before-you-spend-them/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/counting-tokens-before-you-spend-them/Why character-count estimates drift, what message formatting adds that you didn't count, and how to build a budget check that fails before the API does.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTtokensmeasurementhttps://context-augmented.com/blogs/the-context-window-is-a-budget/https://context-augmented.com/blogs/the-context-window-is-a-budget/Five things compete for every request's window, including the answer. How to write down the allocation, and why the output reservation is the row people forget.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbudgetingtokens