# Configuring compaction thresholds and context windows for coding agents

DevFeed: [Configuring compaction thresholds and context windows for coding agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/stop-giving-your-coding-agent-a-million-token-context-window-16009.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://workos.com/blog/coding-agent-context-window-compaction-settings>)

Author: WorkOS

Published: 2026-08-14T19:33:33Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [WorkOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/workos-blog.md>)

Topics: [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [long-context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/long-context.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [generation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generation.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recovery.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how to derive a coding agent's effective context window from compaction thresholds and the response runway required to complete generation. It discusses threshold behavior, model metadata, route limits, generation clamping, overflow detection, and recovery.

## Source excerpt

Derive your coding agent's effective context window from two numbers: the compaction threshold you want, and the response runway the model needs to finish.