- In short
- Silent context growth is the unbounded accumulation of context in a monolithic strategy across a long conversation: per-call token count grows with every turn, with no visible signal until it appears in billing or a truncation error. A conversation that starts at a few thousand tokens can be an order of magnitude larger by turn thirty if nothing is pruned, summarized, or staged. The fix is switching the accumulating portion to a progressive or compaction strategy, not simply requesting a larger context window.
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