https://mkabdelrahman.github.io/tags/summarization/Recent content in Summarization on Mohamed AbdelrahmanHugoenThu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mkabdelrahman.github.io/posts/agent-context-compaction-strategies/Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mkabdelrahman.github.io/posts/agent-context-compaction-strategies/<h2 id="the-problem"> The problem <a class="heading-link" href="#the-problem"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>A long-running agent accumulates messages over time: user prompts, model responses, reasoning traces, tool calls, tool outputs. The model&rsquo;s context window is finite — from a hundred thousand tokens on the smaller end to a million or more on the largest current frontier models. Once the conversation no longer fits, continuing without intervention triggers a hard error or silent truncation by the provider.</p>