Articles tagged “context-window”
7 articles
Your MCP tool descriptions are failing your agent
97% of real-world MCP tool descriptions contain quality problems that hurt agent accuracy and inflate token costs. Here's what the research found and how to fix it.
Context engineering: why your agent gets dumber mid-conversation
82% of AI teams say prompt engineering alone no longer works for production. Context engineering decides what your agent sees, when, and what gets removed as conversations grow.
Your Agent's Context Window Is RAM, Not Storage
Most agent failures trace back to one mistake: treating the context window like a database. Here's the RAM model that fixes attention dilution, latency spikes, and ballooning costs.
1M-Token Context or RAG? How to Pick for Your CX Agent
Gemini's 1M-token window is real but not free. A practical decision framework for choosing between long-context and RAG for customer experience agents, with cost numbers, code, and the hybrid pattern most production teams land on.
Stop Loading All Your MCP Tools at Once
Loading 50 MCP tools burns 72K tokens before your agent says a word. Progressive tool discovery fixes that: smaller context, sharper decisions, real code patterns.
Your MCP server is a monolith. Here's how to fix it
MCP servers dump every tool into the context window, burning tokens before your agent reasons. Four patterns to fix it: decompose, filter, gateway, facade.
Your AI Agent's Context Window Is Already Half Full
System prompts, tool schemas, MCP descriptions, memory injection, conversation history. They all eat tokens before the user says a word. Learn where your context budget goes and how to manage it.
Learn Agentic AI
Weekly. Patterns for shipping agents that work. MCP, scorecards, regression tests, prompts, model comparisons.
