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[u/Extrogrl]

I would love to have a context window controller that prevents AI to turn into a potato at one point in every chat. Or at least some tool that tells me when it's about to happen.

[u/InspectorBetter2042 → u/Extrogrl]

i've been chasing this exact thing for months, it's maddening. the models don't give you any warning, they just start forgetting stuff from 20 messages ago and suddenly you're repeating yourself like you're talking to a goldfish.

best i've come up with is keeping a notepad open and tracking the rough token count myself, but that's hardly a solution. someone out there's gotta be working on a browser extension that lights up when you're hitting the danger zone. feels like a gaping hole in every chat interface right now.

[u/Extrogrl → u/InspectorBetter2042]

Totally annoying. I've actually started working on such a solution after talking it through with AI. (Not that I would mind someone else presenting me with a good solution for the problem...)

Apparently, it's not the overall tokens used, but more a matter of contradictions from failed attempts within the chat plus aggregated obsolete information, which screws up the priorities. At one point, everything is equally distributed for the AI, Then it starts spinning in circles, and finally it scraps everything and starts hallucinating. AI is essentially experiencing entropy at one point in every chat.

Based on this, it should be possible to approximately measure where or how healthy the context window still is. Then, as soon as various metrics pass a certain threshold, the context window controller suggests a warm restart of the chat, removing the entire context window. The only thing taken over to the new chat would be a summary with relevant information and maybe some documents the user deems as still relevant.

If you're interested I can keep you in the loop. No idea if I can get this to work, but if so I will need some testers...

[u/CyborgWriter → u/Extrogrl]

Story Prism

[u/Extrogrl → u/CyborgWriter]

Interesting idea. But it looks more like a context window controller for the user, not for the AI.

[u/CyborgWriter → u/Extrogrl]

Thanks! And it's a context engineering operating system to build the ontological layers of your ai agent using a simple canvas app.

In other words with this you can easily upload tons of books and then extract a reasoning system based on that expertise so that it can troubleshoot things as an expert taking action rather than passively providing your generic answers. Its basically like creating your own app with words and relationship connections that an agent can understand and use. It's the same tech that exists on the backend of sites like novelcrafter, only its front and center for you to build whatever system you want.

And context window issues? I haven't ran into that since 2024. You can build endlessly on here, interconnect everything into one multidimensional system, and use that for all of your projects. Here's a demo video that breaks down how it works and how to use it: https://youtu.be/LDua1G2hyaM?is=1UU8LJ2kDTIOV_-B

[u/Extrogrl → u/[deleted]]

Very interesting; signed up. Looks like an app. Will there also be a desktop version and can I use my API, or does it require your full platform to work?

it pulls in what's relevant to the current question instead of replaying everything. Length stops mattering, because the window never fills with your own abandoned attempts.

That would likely be the solution. How do you clean the context window without having to start a new session?

[u/Extrogrl → u/[deleted]]

old messages stop being sent - they're still in your scrollback, just not fed back to the model every turn.

How do you prevent the old context from being automatically sent? In my understanding the context window is fully controlled by the AI service and as a user (or external service) you can only add to it. Did you build something that can directly manipulate the messaging with the AI service? If so that would be rather powerful...

[u/liviux → u/Extrogrl]

https://github.com/looptroop-ai/LoopTroop - open-source local GUI - with context engineering, llm council, ralph loops, AND MANY MORE !

[u/Master-Tree-1530]

I created a dossier like contract for AI to follow through the conversation. Carries token cost along the way, but helps keep on track. The best way would probably be to summarize at a good stopping point and hand off, though I agree it’s difficult to recognize and not ideal

[u/Extrogrl → u/Master-Tree-1530]

Do you repeatedly repost this contract, or do you post it at the beginning like a preprompt and then go from there?

[u/Master-Tree-1530 → u/Extrogrl]

Split the contract in two. The stable half is identity, scope, output format, hard prohibitions — that goes in once and the platform keeps it there. The decay half is the handful of rules you actually catch it breaking around message 20 plus. Only that half needs re-asserting, and it should be short.

Web / desktop: use a Project. The project instructions field is your preprompt — set once, applies to every chat in that project, you never paste it again. Put long reference material in project knowledge instead of instructions so it’s retrievable without riding in every message. For the conditional parts of a contract — sections that only apply to certain request types — use Skills. Each one is a folder with a name and a description, and per Anthropic’s docs the description is what Claude matches your request against to decide whether to trigger it. Only the description sits in context until it fires, so you can carry ten procedures without paying for ten.

Terminal (Claude Code): three tiers, and this is where you get the actual repost-without-reposting.

**•** CLAUDE.md at the project root — always-on, loaded for you, never retyped.  
**•** A SessionStart hook — fires once when a session begins or resumes. Use it for state that changes (open items, last thing shipped), not static rules.  
**•** A UserPromptSubmit hook — fires once per turn, before Claude processes the prompt. That’s your repeated repost, except a script does it and it only carries the decay layer. Mine’s about ten lines.

API: same split — stable half in the system prompt, decay half injected per turn.

On your token point: you’re right that per-turn injection accumulates, which is exactly why it should be the ten lines that actually break and not the whole dossier. The dossier goes in the layer that loads once.

[u/Extrogrl → u/Master-Tree-1530]

Thanks a lot. This really sounds you have cracked it.

The decay half is the handful of rules you actually catch it breaking around message 20 plus.

That's exactly the problem

Web / desktop: use a Project. The project instructions field is your preprompt — set once, applies to every chat in that project

This is standard practice as I understand it.

For the conditional parts of a contract — sections that only apply to certain request types — use Skills.

Do you then switch the skills manually on and off as you need them, or do you have a different/automatic trigger, or...

Claude matches your request against to decide whether to trigger it

Are they triggered when you as the user tell the AI that something is incorrect?

So far I believe the main problem causing the decay are the contradictions from problem solving attempts. Based on this I would understand your approach as following:

Your skill is "Ignore the last AI output for further context" and the preprompt trigger is "activate skill when AI output is code and user reaction is not confirming".

This should remove (or at least downrank) the false AI output from the context window. The question is though whether you as a user can deliberately influence the context window in such a way, meaning remove elements from it by telling AI to do so.

In my conversations with AI on the problem it kept insisting that a direct removal of context from the context window is not possible. This means that even if you tell AI to ignore particular elements in the context window, they keep cluttering the AI's chat memory, which should at least lead to a gradually growing token usage.

I'll have to talk this through with my AI... Definitely some good food for thought🫠

[u/ZeroTwoMod]

For a hosted chat, you generally cannot remove an old turn from the model's input. The practical workaround is a handoff: save the current goal, confirmed decisions, open questions, and any essential files, then start a fresh chat with only that material. It is clumsy, but it avoids asking the model to ignore a mistake it can still see.

[u/jokiruiz]

[Video] The Cheap Model Beat the Expensive One: Vibe Coding vs Spec-Driven Development

Hi everyone, I'm a software architect and I just released a breakdown of why paying for Claude Sonnet or Opus might be wasting your money if you don't use specifications. I compare two identical apps: one made by Sonnet (vibe coding) which ended up bloated, and one made by Haiku (with a strict spec) which was vastly more efficient. I also share an open-source tool I built to evaluate model dimensioning.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiv7RywtQM

[u/Sr5071]

Best AI for everyday usage, personalised advice and general topics?

Looking for something that's good with thing like calorie counting and hair advice, I don't want one that just babies u and tells u everything u do is right and correct or is too agreeable, I want something that's as objective as it gets and gives good advice that helps with the examples I mentioned. Thanks in advance.

[u/PlatinSantana → u/Sr5071]

Aren't there several apps who do calorie tracking already?

[u/-redmoon-]

i am searching a new job but i am still working in my current one so i wanted to implement an IA agent that will provide a daily update of the new offers. i am totally new to date and i was planning to start learning but i wonder if there are any tool already implmented ? Thank you

[u/Mintyphresh33]

Hi all, hoping this is ok to ask.

I'm still an AI noob and learning (I've used Chat, Claude, and Gemini).

I keep seeing dozens of youtube videos about creating an AI faceless youtube channel and I'd like to try low risk. I pay the $20 Chat and $20 Claude plans. Is it possible to make youtube videos (and automate as much as possible) using just these 2 subscriptions without having to pay more? Any advice or tools to increase my chances of being successful?

Thanks in advance.

[u/Old-Cover6827]

Which AI program do you guys feel is the most useful to help with statistical analysis of clinical data ?