Context Compression

Reduce context size while preserving information critical to task completion.

Overview

Context compression is essential for long-running agent sessions. The goal is NOT maximum compression—it's preserving enough information to complete tasks without re-fetching.

Key Metric: Tokens-per-task (total tokens to complete a task), NOT tokens-per-request.

When to Use

• Long-running conversations approaching context limits
• Multi-step agent workflows with accumulating history
• Sessions with large tool outputs
• Memory management in persistent agents