ECO-AIM-AI-006 — Unbounded context window usage¶

Category: AI/ML (AIM)
Family: AI (AI)
Layer: AI
Tier: 2
Severity: warning
Tags: ai, context-window
Legacy ID: ECO-AI-006

Summary¶

Excessive context increases token cost and latency.

Token usage is a direct multiplier for cost and energy.

{
  "confidence": 0.75,
  "notes": "Often the biggest controllable factor.",
  "type": "cost"
}

{
  "languages": [
    "org",
    "infra"
  ],
  "method": "trace"
}

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

{
  "system_layers": [
    "ai"
  ]
}