Your Agent’s Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer

Why the “throw everything in and let the model sort it out” approach is the agent equivalent of studying by highlighting the entire textbook.

Everyone has one. That drawer in the kitchen where you put the thing that doesn’t have a place. Batteries, takeout menus, a screwdriver, three pens that don’t work, two different keys, a warranty card for something you no longer own, and a single AA battery that might be dead.

You know the drawer exists. You know roughly what’s in it. And every time you …