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ECO-AIM-AI-006

Name: Unbounded context window usage

Category: AIM

Family: AI

Primary layer: ai

System layers: ai

Description

Excessive context increases token cost and latency.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.75
  • notes: Often the biggest controllable factor.
  • type: cost

Detection

  • languages:
  • org
  • infra
  • method: trace

Remediation

  • guidance: Summarize, retrieve selectively, and cap context intentionally.
  • tradeoffs: Requires prompt/pipeline design.

Pattern examples

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Remediation examples

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