Context window

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Lesson 1.2: The agent loop: observe, decide, act Follow an agent through its loop, and learn why small per-step errors compound, why context grows with every turn, and why every loop needs a limit.
Lesson 1.4: The parts of an agent: model, tools, memory and instructions Learn the five parts every agent is built from, what each does, how they share a limited context window, and how to write the plan for an agent on one page.
Lesson 1.2: Tokens, context and why wording matters Learn what tokens and context windows are, how to budget the text you send, and how word choice and order quietly change what a model gives back.
Lesson 4.3: Managing context: short-term memory and summaries Learn to keep an agent's context useful as a run grows: trimming, sliding windows, rolling summaries, pinned notes and offloading, with the token arithmetic.
Lesson 2.1: Tokens and context windows explained Language models read tokens, not words, and can only hold so many at once. Learn what tokens are, how to estimate them, and why the context window matters.