Context Governance for Coding Agents

Context Governance for Coding Agents When people first hear the phrase "context management," they often reduce it to two ideas: Use a larger context window. Compress history when the window is about to overflow. That is not wrong, but it is far too narrow. In ordinary chat systems, context management really is mostly about conversation history. But once a system becomes a coding agent, especially one that reads files, calls tools, runs commands, writes code, and interacts with external systems,