https://abbreviatory.com/tags/context-reduction/ Recent content in context reduction on Abbreviatory.com Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/abbreviatory-launches-as-an-open-source-tool-that-cuts-test-runs-and-logs-down-to-what-matters/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/abbreviatory-launches-as-an-open-source-tool-that-cuts-test-runs-and-logs-down-to-what-matters/ Abbreviatory v0.1.0 is out. It’s a small command-line tool that takes a big pile of tool output, a test run, a build log, a JSON response, and turns it into a short report that keeps the failures, errors and warnings. It’s open source under the Apache License 2.0 and comes as a single static binary for Linux, macOS and Windows. The problem is familiar to anyone who has scrolled a CI log. https://abbreviatory.com/how-abbreviatory-was-tested-against-its-four-promises/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/how-abbreviatory-was-tested-against-its-four-promises/ A tool that leaves things out has to be careful about what. So the testing for v0.1.0 is built around four promises, checked over and over: the report never goes over the budget, nothing important gets lost, the same input gives the same bytes, and every reference expands back to exactly the original. Every number in this post comes from the result files in the code repository, in test/results. They were recorded on October 18, 2026, at commit d0d473f, on a Linux machine with an Intel Xeon processor at 2. https://abbreviatory.com/what-context-reduction-is-and-why-abbreviatory-does-it-without-a-language-model/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/what-context-reduction-is-and-why-abbreviatory-does-it-without-a-language-model/ Context is whatever a reader has in front of them when they decide what to do next. For a person, it’s the terminal. For a coding agent, it’s the text that goes into the model on its next turn. Either way it’s limited, and most of what tools print is filler. Context reduction is cutting that down before it reaches the reader, without losing anything they need. A test run of 5,000 lines, of which 4,950 say “ok”, becomes the 50 that don’t, plus a count of the rest. https://abbreviatory.com/why-the-project-is-called-abbreviatory/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://abbreviatory.com/why-the-project-is-called-abbreviatory/ The name says what it does. Abbreviatory is an old adjective meaning “serving to shorten”, from abbreviate plus -ory, the ending that turns a verb into “the thing that does it”, as in directory or laboratory. That’s the job. Something long goes in, something short comes out, and the short version still means the same thing. Think of “Dr.” for “doctor”: shorter, and anyone can read it back in full. The tool works the same way.