Turn Budget

How many turns before the window fills

Library › Context Problems

1. The Context Window

2. Window Occupancy

3. Growth per Turn

4. Remaining Space

5. Turn Budget

6. Retrieval Footprint

7. Retrieval per Turn

8. Search Rounds

9. Window Sizing

10. Truncation

11. Compaction

12. The Compaction Bill

13. Compacted Retrieval

14. The Compaction Threshold

15. Verbatim Tail

16. Stateless API

17. Retrieval Cost

18. Context Tax

19. Quadratic Cost

20. Cost Forecast

Every turn is the same block, so a part-full window is a countdown: divide the free space by what one turn costs and you know how many are left. Marking the blocks in is the slow way to the same answer, and worth doing once, because it shows what the division is counting. The block is not the same for every agent, though: one that answers briefly gets far more turns out of the same window than one that writes at length. Notice too that the last turn has to fit whole; half a turn is not a turn.

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⬇ Turn Budget worksheet (2 pages)

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6. Retrieval Footprint