Summary
Tool-level truncation exists, but accumulated agent memory/tool results can still exceed the configured context budget. A limit: 1 request overflowed the workflow context instead of returning a bounded or partial result.
Related
- No standalone context-budget or agentic overflow issue/PR found during search.
Clean Reproduction
Fresh clone at:
ce5bf27 Merge pull request #59 from Jakedismo/wip-indexing-analyzers-doc
Clean OpenAI LLM run after indexing src:
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Embeddings: 2157 chunks, 1536-dim, provider openai
MCP call:
{
"name": "agentic_context",
"arguments": {
"query": "Build context for a large feature touching several modules and API routes. Include files, functions, dependencies, risks, and next steps.",
"focus": "builder",
"limit": 1
}
}Observed error:
Context length 199958 bytes exceeds 192000 byte limit
Earlier non-clean troubleshooting run hit the same class of failure at:
215830 bytes exceeds 192000 byte limit
Expected
The agentic workflow should enforce a global budget across:
- Tool results
- Conversation history
- Agent memory
- Final synthesis prompt
If the budget would be exceeded, the tool should reduce retrieval, summarize intermediate state, or return a partial bounded result.
Actual
The workflow accumulates enough context to exceed its configured budget and fails before returning usable output.
Impact
The error tells callers to reduce scope/limits, but the public limit parameter is not applied by the agentic wrapper. The budgeting guard catches the overflow too late, after the orchestration has already accumulated excessive context.
Summary
Tool-level truncation exists, but accumulated agent memory/tool results can still exceed the configured context budget. A
limit: 1request overflowed the workflow context instead of returning a bounded or partial result.Related
Clean Reproduction
Fresh clone at:
Clean OpenAI LLM run after indexing
src:MCP call:
{ "name": "agentic_context", "arguments": { "query": "Build context for a large feature touching several modules and API routes. Include files, functions, dependencies, risks, and next steps.", "focus": "builder", "limit": 1 } }Observed error:
Earlier non-clean troubleshooting run hit the same class of failure at:
Expected
The agentic workflow should enforce a global budget across:
If the budget would be exceeded, the tool should reduce retrieval, summarize intermediate state, or return a partial bounded result.
Actual
The workflow accumulates enough context to exceed its configured budget and fails before returning usable output.
Impact
The error tells callers to reduce scope/limits, but the public
limitparameter is not applied by the agentic wrapper. The budgeting guard catches the overflow too late, after the orchestration has already accumulated excessive context.