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Agent Context Budget Management

Strategies for managing token context budgets in multi-step AI agent pipelines — preventing overflow, summarizing aggressively, and structuring subagent delegation for optimal performance.

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$ openclaw session new --context-limit 4000
$ openclaw session summarize --aggressive
$ openclaw config set agent.max_context_tokens 8000
$ openclaw agent spawn --context-budget 2000

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Managing Context Budgets in Multi-Step Agent Pipelines

Agent Context Budget Management

# Agent Context Budget Management Context window overflow is one of the most critical failure modes in multi-step agent pipelines. When context overflows, **early content gets silently truncated** — causing degraded reasoning, forgotten instructions, and hallucinations. Unlike a crash, overflow fai

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