Your Agent's Context Window Is Full. Now What?

Hands on workshop: build three fixes for context window failures using four context engineering strategies (externalize, select, compress, isolate). Memory pointer in single and multi agent setups, debounce for loops, async handle for slow tools. Real metrics.

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Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone

Developer Advocate

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Presentation Deck

Slides: four context engineering strategies and the Memory Pointer Pattern

Stop AI Agents from Wasting Tokens

Open-source repo with all four demos you build: memory pointer, swarm, reasoning loops, MCP timeouts

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Why AI Agents Fail: 3 Failure Modes That Cost You Tokens and Time

Blog post on the failure modes and fixes

Solving Context Window Overflow in AI Agents

IBM Research on the Memory Pointer Pattern

Resilient AI Agents With MCP

Octopus on the async handle pattern for slow tools

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