Set per-component context ceilings against a 200K budget for predictable agent costs

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Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google now advise budgeting context windows by component slot rather than letting them fill organically. Assign recommended ceilings to each slot (system, tools, history, retrieved docs) against a 200K steady-state budget, and combine hard limits, automatic compaction, and pre-execution budget awareness — the three mechanisms Claude Code uses to prevent runaway API costs.