Context Window

What is Context Window?

The context window is the maximum span of tokens an LLM can attend to in one forward pass—including system prompt, history, retrieved docs, and the new user message. Overflow forces truncation or summarization.

Related Giskard articles

Test long-context behavior with Giskard — measure retrieval and instruction following when history approaches the window limit. See Giskard OSS.

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