---
schema: 1
type: term
title: context window
description: >-
  **Context window** — the body of text a language model can hold in view at
  once: the material you paste in, uploaded documents, or a conversation's
  history. Everything the model references when answering lives inside that
  window; whatever falls outside it is invisible to the model. In this channel's
  material, a large context window is what lets a model work with whole books,
  million-token document piles, or tens of thousands of words of transcripts
  without the source being chopped up.
canonical: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/context-window-ea9aa656fa27
markdown: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/context-window-ea9aa656fa27.md
llms: null
parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt'
channel: everyinc
updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
language: null
children: []
---


# context window

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/context-window-ea9aa656fa27

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Context window** — the body of text a language model can hold in view at once: the material you paste in, uploaded documents, or a conversation's history. Everything the model references when answering lives inside that window; whatever falls outside it is invisible to the model. In this channel's material, a large context window is what lets a model work with whole books, million-token document piles, or tens of thousands of words of transcripts without the source being chopped up.

## Context window in this channel's material