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Summary
This section explains that LLMs are stateless functions and that high-quality outputs depend on carefully engineered context, not just standard chat-style message formats.
It argues for explicitly managing the entire context window—prompts, retrieved documents, past tool calls, history, and output schemas—and, when needed, replacing default message schemas with custom, token-efficient context representations. It illustrates how to serialize an internal event/thread model into a single structured prompt string, giving the model a compact, fully explicit view of “what has happened so far” to decide the next step.
