// Agentic Context Management // Great read for the weekend. (bookmark it) Production agents fail less on reasoning and more on what sits in their context. Conversation history, big prompts, huge tool definitions, and ballooning tool outputs pile up every turn. The common response is storage and retrieval, a place to stash memories and look them up. New research argues that framing is too narrow and names a fuller discipline, Agentic Context Management. It decomposes into five primitives, architecting, ingesting, scoping, anticipating, and compacting with consolidation. Naive accumulation grows token cost with the square of conversation length. Crude summarization buys linear cost but hits an accuracy cliff. Only compaction validated against fidelity gets you linear cost without losing what matters. A reference implementation reports 92% on LongMemEval and 93.2% on LoCoMo. Why does it matter? Context management is becoming a first-class production concern that operates across an entire organization. The five primitives give you a structured way to reason about where your token budget goes. Paper: Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: