Context-Management Decision

Description

One of six recurring design decisions. Options: graduated compaction pipeline (Claude Code, 5 layers), simple truncation, sliding window, RAG, or single summarization. Guide insight: apply least-disruptive compression first: budget reduction (cheap) > history trimming > cache-aware > virtual projection > full summarization (expensive).

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