Short-Term Memory: the Context Window
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An LLM remembers nothing between calls. Everything it “knows” about the current task is in the context window: the system prompt, the conversation, and every tool result so far. That’s short-term memory. Manage it badly and the agent gets slow, expensive and forgetful; manage it well and it stays sharp for hours.
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