CONTEXT AS THE SCARCE RESOURCE

LEARNING GOALS By the end of this chapter, you will be able to explain what a context window is, using an everyday comparison to the memory inside a computer. You will be able to describe the operating-system analogy for agents, where the model is the thinker and the harness is the manager of its memory. You will understand why context is finite, and you will know how to budget it the way a careful household budgets money.