Glossary AI

Context Window

The amount of text an AI model can see at one time, measured in tokens. Everything the model reads — system prompt, conversation history, tool results, files — must fit inside the context window.

Why it matters

When an agent runs out of context window, it forgets what it was doing. Coordination intelligence is the discipline of putting only the right tokens in the window.

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Prompt Engineering
The skill of writing instructions that get an AI model to do what you actually want. Includes role framing, few-shot examples, ...
Token
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Token Efficiency Ratio
A metric measuring whether an operational rule saves more tokens than it costs to load into an agent's context. A ratio above 1...
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