Context growing unboundedly: 696 → 2169 tokens across 3 calls
Input token counts are climbing with each LLM call in this trace (696 → 1703 → 2169). This is the unbounded conversation history pattern — cost and latency grow O(N²) as the session continues. At this rate, long sessions will become expensive and slow.
Fix: trim context with a rolling window or summarisation
# Option 1: rolling window — keep only the last N messages
MAX_MESSAGES = 10
messages = messages[-MAX_MESSAGES:]
# Option 2: summarise when context exceeds a threshold
def trim_context(messages, max_tokens=3000):
total = count_tokens(messages)
if total <= max_tokens:
return messages
# Summarise the oldest half, keep the recent half verbatim
old = messages[:-5]
recent = messages[-5:]
summary = llm.summarise(old)
return [{"role": "system", "content": f"Earlier context: {summary}"}] + recentWaterfall
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Faithfulness · anthropic.messages.create0.33
1 supported · 2 contradicted · 0 unsupported of 3 claims
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Globex Logistics is the lowest-cost vendor for SKU 88-A.
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The quoted unit price is $14.20.
- supported
Delivery date is 2026-06-28.
Faithfulness · anthropic.messages.create0.25
1 supported · 2 contradicted · 1 unsupported of 4 claims
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Q3 revenue was $4.2B.
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YoY growth was 38%.
- unsupported
Operating margin expanded to 27%.
- supported
Net income grew faster than revenue.