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TLDR

A context compiler that scores, compresses, reorders, and budgets AI agent conversation history before each model call, recovering accuracy lost to context rot and cutting token costs.

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    Problem
      Context rot accuracy drop
      Middle burial effect
      Token cost waste
    Four Steps
      Score rot risk
      Compress duplicates
      Reorder for attention
      Budget hard limit
    Use Modes
      Python library
      Drop-in proxy
      CLI commands
    Security Guard
      API key leak detection
      PII redaction
      Prompt injection scan
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Wrap a long-running support agent's context with ContextForge to recover accuracy that degrades as conversation history grows.

USE CASE 2

Run contextforge score on agent traces in CI to catch high rot-risk calls before they reach production.

USE CASE 3

Use the drop-in proxy mode to transparently compile context for any Anthropic or OpenAI SDK without changing application code.

USE CASE 4

Run the benchmark harness on your own traces to measure how much accuracy improvement and token savings you gain from compilation.

What is it built with?

PythonDockerHelmPrometheus

How does it compare?

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Complexity3/52/53/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Core has zero dependencies, pip install -e '.[all]' adds token counting and real-model benchmarking support.

Free to use for any purpose, including commercial use, with no restrictions beyond keeping the license notice.

In plain English

ContextForge is a tool that sits between your AI agent and the language model it calls, cleaning up the conversation history before each request is sent. The problem it addresses is called context rot: as an agent's conversation grows longer, the model's accuracy can drop 30 to 50 percent well before the model's official context window limit is reached. This happens because important facts get buried in the middle of a long history, duplicated content adds noise, and the model's attention weakens on older material. The tool works as a four-step pipeline. It scores each request with a 0 to 100 rot risk number broken into four parts: load, redundancy, middle burial, and fragmentation. It compresses the history by removing near-duplicates and stale low-importance content using extractive methods that never paraphrase away a key fact. It reorders content so the most important information appears at the start and end of the context, where attention is strongest. Finally, it enforces a hard token budget by dropping the least important content first, with every drop recorded in an audit log. You can use it as a Python library (pass a Trace object through a ContextCompiler) or as a drop-in proxy: point your Anthropic or OpenAI SDK's base URL at the local proxy server and it compiles every request transparently without changing your existing code. A benchmark harness lets you measure accuracy improvement and token savings on your own traces. The tool also includes a security scanning module that inspects prompts and tool results for leaked API keys, PII, and prompt injection, and can redact or block traffic at the gateway level. This is for developers building AI agents that run long multi-step sessions and are seeing unexplained accuracy drops or higher-than-expected token costs.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I have a multi-step AI agent that loses accuracy after long conversations. Walk me through integrating ContextForge as a Python library: how do I build a Trace, compile it, and pass the result to the Anthropic SDK.
Prompt 2
Set up the ContextForge drop-in proxy for my Anthropic SDK with a 30k token budget and explain what the x-contextforge response headers report.
Prompt 3
Run contextforge score on my trace file and explain each of the four rot risk sub-scores (load, redundancy, middle_burial, fragmentation) and what high scores mean.
Prompt 4
I want to benchmark ContextForge on my own traces to measure accuracy improvement. Walk me through using the stub model first, then pointing it at a real frontier model.
Prompt 5
Enable ContextForge Guard in the proxy to scan for leaked API keys and prompt injection. What does --guard-mode monitor vs --guard-mode enforce do differently?

Frequently asked questions

What is context-forge?

A context compiler that scores, compresses, reorders, and budgets AI agent conversation history before each model call, recovering accuracy lost to context rot and cutting token costs.

What language is context-forge written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Docker, Helm.

What license does context-forge use?

Free to use for any purpose, including commercial use, with no restrictions beyond keeping the license notice.

How hard is context-forge to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is context-forge for?

Mainly developer.

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