#context-window

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GUIDE 2026-05-11

Context window compression: the techniques and what they cost

Long sessions, paste-heavy work, and verbose tool output push context windows to their limits. Here are three compression strategies, what fidelity each one sacrifices, and a workflow that sidesteps the problem entirely.

Owner · 6 min #ai-coding #context-window

GUIDE 2026-05-11

What 1M context on Opus 4.7 actually buys you (and what it doesn't)

Opus 4.7's 1M-token context window is genuinely useful for large cross-file refactors and multi-document synthesis — but most tasks don't need it, and paying for it blindly is expensive.

Owner · 7 min #claude-code #context-window