- In short
- The context strategy spectrum describes how context reaches the model on each call. A monolithic strategy loads everything into a single prompt at once; it suits bounded tasks with predictable input size but silently accumulates toward the window limit across turns. A progressive strategy stages what enters the window, retrieving just-in-time, summarizing across turns, and loading only what the next step needs. Retrieval and compaction are two further strategies that sit between the monolithic and progressive poles.
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