Context Editing Skill
When to Use
- •Questions about managing long conversations
- •Token cost concerns
- •"Context window filling up"
- •"Claude forgets earlier messages"
- •"How to handle 20+ turn conversations"
- •Summarization and compression strategies
Key Feature: Context Editing
Context Editing lets you intelligently manage what stays in Claude's context window.
Core Capabilities
- •Summarization: Compress older turns while preserving meaning
- •Fact Extraction: Pull out key facts to persistent storage
- •Selective Retention: Keep important messages verbatim
- •Dynamic Management: Adjust context based on conversation flow
Recommended Pattern for Long Conversations
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Turns 1-5: Keep verbatim (recent context) Turns 6-15: Summarize (compressed context) Persistent: Extracted facts (always present)
Token Savings
- •Typical reduction: 60-70% for conversations over 20 turns
- •Better user experience: Claude "remembers" key facts
- •Cost savings scale with conversation length
Response Guidelines
- •Identify the problem: Long conversations? Token costs? Lost context?
- •Explain the pattern: Verbatim + Summarized + Persistent
- •Give specific numbers: 60-70% savings, turn thresholds
- •Offer to dive deeper: Architecture details if they want