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id: EL-007
title: "Context budgets: what to give an agent, and what to withhold"
status: published
version: v1.1
series: ams
part: 2
tags: [Agents, Context]
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-28
concepts: [context-budget]
abstract: >-
  More context is not better context. A framework for budgeting what an agent sees per step — brand rules, prior campaigns, audience data — and the failure modes that appear when budgets are ignored.
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