/context anatomy

Build-along · ~8 min at your own keyboard

Tens of thousands of tokens are spent before your first message: system prompt, tool definitions, memory, rules. Then a listing's full data, a stack of comps, and a page of client notes pile on top. /context itemizes it. You can't manage what you've never looked at, and most people never look.

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Paste your before/after /context numbers and the biggest surprise.