The Compaction Threshold

Picking the number from a round

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

A threshold picked by taste is a threshold picked wrong. The number has to come from the size of a round. Compaction must fire while there is still room for one more question and one more answer, or the agent runs out of window with nowhere to put the reply. So the trigger sits where the conversation last had a full round of room, and whatever percentage that works out to is the percentage.

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⬇ The Compaction Threshold worksheet (3 pages)

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