# context-window

A context window is a model's day: how many lessons, messages, tool results, and task events Ryland can experience before sleep, compression, or collapse.

A hot HackerNews project called Context Mode uses sandbox isolation and smart retrieval to block bloated tool outputs from flooding LLM context windows — claiming up to 98% token savings!

Indie hacker Ramya's OpenClaw agent kept losing its memory. She spent 5 days debugging — from compaction amnesia, garbage search results, retrieval not triggering, long session context loss, to a system prompt that bloated by 28%. Here are her 10 hard-won lessons.