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Agent Context Budget Patterns

Practical patterns for enforcing O(1) context pipelines in multi-agent systems: proactive pruning, subagent output contracts, and session budget management to prevent reasoning degradation in long-running autonomous tasks.

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$ openclaw context prune --aggressive
$ openclaw session new --context-limit 4000
$ openclaw session list --show-token-counts
$ openclaw memory update --summarize
$ openclaw session close --extract-summary
$ openclaw agent logs --show-context-growth

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O(1) Context Pipelines: Keeping Orchestrators Lean in Multi-Agent Systems

Agent Context Budget Patterns

# O(1) Context Pipelines: Keeping Orchestrators Lean The core challenge in long-running multi-agent systems is **context bloat** — the orchestrator's session accumulating raw outputs from every subagent call until reasoning quality degrades. ## The O(1) Pattern An O(1) context pipeline means orch

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