DictionaryContext Management
Progressive Disclosure
Revealing information to the AI only when it needs it, like turning pages instead of dumping the whole book at once.
Definition
Instead of loading an entire codebase, which would immediately overwhelm the attention budget, modern agents use JIT (just-in-time) context. The assistant dynamically loads only the necessary data at runtime, revealing information progressively as needed.
Example
An agent first reads a file list, then opens auth.ts, then only the one helper it imports, instead of loading all 400 files.