- In short
- The context window is the model's active attention space: everything inside it is available for reasoning, and everything outside it does not exist to the model for that call. It resets between calls unless the application explicitly manages continuity by re-sending history. Context is measured and billed in tokens, and actual token counts are reported in every API response's usage field rather than reliably estimated from a fixed characters-per-token ratio.
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