# Context Window Management

> Use this skill in long conversations or multi-turn agentic sessions where context may be lost or the conversation is approaching token limits. Summarize, prioritize, and compact context proactively before it becomes a problem.

- Skill: `gabrielmoreira/context-window-management` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add gabrielmoreira/context-window-management`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/gabrielmoreira/context-window-management/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Research & Search
- Author: gabrielmoreira (https://skillmd.com/u/gabrielmoreira)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/gabrielmoreira/context-window-management

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# Context Window Management

**Proactive summarization:**
- At natural breakpoints, summarize key decisions and state into a compact form.
- Keep the active context focused on the current task; move resolved context to a summary.

**Prioritization:**
- Most important: current task description, constraints, and already-confirmed decisions.
- Less important: verbose tool outputs that have been processed; intermediate reasoning.

**File-based memory:** For long-running sessions, write important state to a file rather than keeping it all in the conversation.

**Avoid:** Repeatedly re-reading large files you already have in context; re-running expensive searches for information already retrieved.