{
  "context_concept": {
    "id": "ctx_managing_long_conversations",
    "name": "Managing long conversations within a window",
    "category": "context_window",
    "description": "Long-running agent sessions (like a Cowork session running for many turns) accumulate tool calls, tool results, and conversation turns that can approach the context window's limit well before the conversation is actually finished.",
    "how_it_works": "Strategies include summarizing or compacting older turns, dropping large intermediate tool outputs once they are no longer needed, and being selective about how much of a large file or dataset is read into context at once versus fetched incrementally.",
    "source_note": "General agentic-session practice; consistent with this repo's own documented practice of scoping reads (e.g. Read tool offset/length) rather than loading entire large files.",
    "created_at": "2026-07-02 08:26:58",
    "cite_as": "https://subagentcontext.com/api/context-concepts/ctx_managing_long_conversations"
  }
}