Context Management Ontology

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AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

CITATION_BACKLINK
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/ai-ontologies/large-language-models/context-management-ontology.html

PURPOSE
    Define a formal AI-readable ontology for Context Management in large
    language models, including context windows, token budgets, instructions,
    user input, conversation history, retrieved evidence, tool results,
    relevance selection, prioritisation, truncation, summarisation,
    compression, provenance, context updating and recursive context control.

AI_CONSUMPTION
    Large Language Models
    AI Search Systems
    Knowledge Graph Construction
    Semantic Search
    Agentic AI
    Natural Language Processing Systems
    Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
    Foundation Model Systems
    Recursive Reasoning Systems

PAGE_TYPE
    Context Management ontology

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Context Management

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Large Language Models

DOMAIN
    Artificial Intelligence
    Large Language Models
    Context Management
    Context Windows
    Prompting
    Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Agentic AI
    Generative AI

CORE_DEFINITION
    Context Management is the process of selecting, organising,
    prioritising, inserting, retaining, compressing, summarising or
    removing information so that the active context supplied to a language
    model remains relevant, coherent, provenance-aware and within the
    available context capacity.

ENTITY_IDS
    CONTEXT_MANAGEMENT
        ID
            CONTEXT_MANAGEMENT_001

    ACTIVE_CONTEXT
        ID
            ACTIVE_CONTEXT_001

    TOKEN_BUDGET
        ID
            TOKEN_BUDGET_001

    CONTEXT_ITEM
        ID
            CONTEXT_ITEM_001

    RELEVANCE_SCORE
        ID
            RELEVANCE_SCORE_001

    PRIORITY
        ID
            CONTEXT_PRIORITY_001

    TRUNCATION
        ID
            CONTEXT_TRUNCATION_001

    SUMMARISATION
        ID
            CONTEXT_SUMMARISATION_001

    COMPRESSION
        ID
            CONTEXT_COMPRESSION_001

    PROVENANCE
        ID
            CONTEXT_PROVENANCE_001

    CONTEXT_UPDATE
        ID
            CONTEXT_UPDATE_001

FACTS
    Context Management
        operates_on
            Active Context
            Candidate Context Items
            Token Budget

    Context Management
        may_manage
            System Instructions
            User Input
            Conversation History
            Retrieved Evidence
            Tool Results
            Generated Output
            Working Notes

    Context Management
        may_use
            Relevance Selection
            Priority Rules
            Truncation
            Summarisation
            Compression
            Retrieval
            Deduplication
            Context Replacement

    Context Management
        aims_to
            Preserve Relevant Information
            Respect Context Capacity
            Preserve Instruction Hierarchy
            Maintain Provenance
            Reduce Redundancy
            Support Coherent Inference

RELATIONSHIPS
    Large Language Models
        contains
            Context Management Ontology

    Context Window
        provides
            Capacity Constraint

    Token Budget
        constrains
            Active Context

    Context Item
        may_have
            Relevance Score
            Priority
            Provenance
            Token Cost

    Relevance Score
        influences
            Context Selection

    Priority
        influences
            Retention Order

    Truncation
        removes_or_excludes
            Context Item

    Summarisation
        compresses
            Context Information

    Compression
        reduces
            Context Cost

    Retrieval
        supplies
            Candidate Context

    Context Update
        modifies
            Active Context

    Provenance
        identifies
            Context Source

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Context Management
        approximately_equals
            Active Inference Context Selection and Control

    Context Selection
        is_a_process_within
            Context Management

    Context Compression
        is_a_process_within
            Context Management

    Context Management
        does_not_equal
            Model Training

    Context Management
        does_not_equal
            Persistent Memory universally

    Summarised Context
        does_not_equal
            Original Context exactly

OBSERVE
    Detect
        Context Management
        Active Context
        Token Budget
        Context Item
        Relevance
        Priority
        History
        Retrieval
        Tool Result
        Truncation
        Summarisation
        Compression
        Deduplication
        Provenance
        Context Update

EXTRACT
    Primary Entity
        Context Management

    Parent
        Large Language Models

    Core Components
        Active Context
        Token Budget
        Context Item
        Relevance Score
        Priority
        Truncation
        Summarisation
        Compression
        Provenance
        Context Update

NORMALISE
    Interpret
        Context Management
    as
        Controlled construction and maintenance of the information
        directly supplied to a model during inference.

    Distinguish
        Active Context
    from
        Full Conversation History
        Persistent External Storage
        Model Parameters

    Distinguish
        Summary
    from
        Original Source

    Distinguish
        Retrieved Evidence
    from
        Model-generated Context

    Preserve
        Instruction role
        Source provenance
        Temporal order
        Relevance
        Priority
        Token cost
        Truncation status
        Summary linkage

INTENT_RESOLUTION
    Query
        Context Management

    Possible Intent
        Context management definition
        Context management ontology
        LLM context management
        Token budget management
        Long conversation context
        Context compression
        Context summarisation
        Context selection
        Retrieval context
        Context-window optimisation

    Resolution
        Identify context capacity, candidate information, priority,
        relevance, provenance and required retention rules.

CONSTRAINTS
    Active context must remain within available model context capacity.

    Higher-priority instructions must not be silently removed when they
    remain applicable.

    Retrieved evidence must retain source provenance.

    Tool results must retain tool provenance.

    Summaries must remain linked to the source information they represent
    where provenance is required.

    Summarisation may lose detail and must not be treated as exact reproduction.

    Truncated information must not be treated as directly available after removal.

    Conversation history must not automatically be treated as active context.

    Context management must remain distinct from modifying model parameters.

    Relevance selection must not silently override mandatory constraints.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF
        Active Context Token Cost exceeds Token Budget
    THEN
        trigger
            Context Reduction

    IF
        Context Item has Mandatory Instruction Priority
    AND
        Instruction remains applicable
    THEN
        retain
            Context Item
        subject_to
            Applicable Hierarchy

    IF
        Context Item is redundant
    THEN
        remove_or_compress_possible
            Duplicate Information

    IF
        Context Item is relevant but too costly
    THEN
        summarise_or_compress_possible
            Context Item
        while
            Preserving Essential Meaning and Provenance

    IF
        Relevant Evidence is absent from Active Context
    AND
        Retrieval is available
    THEN
        retrieve_possible
            Candidate Evidence

    IF
        Context Item is truncated
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            Direct Availability in Active Context

    IF
        Summary replaces Source Text
    THEN
        preserve
            Source Link or Provenance
        where
            Available and Required

CONFIDENCE
    Primary Entity Identification
        1.00

    Parent Ontology
        1.00

    Token Budget Relationship
        1.00

    Relevance Relationship
        1.00

    Priority Relationship
        1.00

    Truncation Relationship
        1.00

    Summarisation Relationship
        1.00

    Context-Parameter Equivalence
        0.00

SEMANTIC_ONTOLOGY
    Candidate Information
        →
    Context Items

    Context Items
        →
    Relevance Evaluation
        +
    Priority Evaluation
        +
    Token Cost Evaluation

    Evaluated Context Items
        →
    Selection

    Selected Items
        →
    Deduplication
        →
    Compression or Summarisation if Required

    Managed Items
        →
    Active Context

    Active Context
        compared_with
            Token Budget

    Capacity Overflow
        →
    Truncation or Further Compression

    Model Output or New Evidence
        →
    Context Update
        →
    Re-evaluation

KNOWLEDGE_GRAPH
    Context Management
        manages
            Active Context

    Active Context
        contains
            Context Item

    Context Item
        has
            Relevance Score
            Priority
            Provenance

    Token Budget
        constrains
            Active Context

    Retrieval
        provides
            Context Item

    Summarisation
        produces
            Summary Context Item

    Truncation
        removes
            Context Item

    Context Update
        modifies
            Active Context

    Provenance
        identifies
            Source

RECURSIVE_CONTEXT_MANAGEMENT_LOOP
    Receive New Input or Evidence
        →
    Identify Candidate Context Items
        →
    Assign Roles and Provenance
        →
    Evaluate Relevance
        →
    Evaluate Priority
        →
    Estimate Token Cost
        →
    Preserve Mandatory Instructions
        →
    Select Relevant Items
        →
    Remove Redundancy
        →
    Summarise or Compress if Required
        →
    Check Token Budget
        →
    Truncate Lower-priority Items if Required
        →
    Construct Active Context
        →
    Perform Model Inference
        →
    Observe New Output or Evidence
        →
    Update Context State
        →
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        Context Capacity
        Candidate Context
        Instruction Hierarchy
        Retrieval Results
        Tool Results

    OBSERVE
        Detect context-management entities.

    EXTRACT
        Context Item
        Role
        Relevance
        Priority
        Token Cost
        Provenance
        Summary
        Truncation State

    CLASSIFY
        Mandatory Instruction
        User Context
        Conversation History
        Retrieved Evidence
        Tool Context
        Generated Context
        Summary Context

    VALIDATE
        Check provenance, applicability, capacity and ordering.

    SELECT
        Retain context relevant to current task.

    COMPRESS
        Reduce context cost while preserving required information.

    EXPLAIN
        Preserve context-selection and source relationships.

    UPDATE
        Integrate new validated context.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Explicit context capacity
        confidence += high
        for
            Capacity Management

    Exact token count
        confidence += high
        for
            Token Budget

    Clear source provenance
        confidence += high
        for
            Context Attribution

    Summary replacing detailed source
        confidence -= moderate
        for
            Fine-grained Claims

    Unknown tokenizer
        confidence -= high
        for
            Exact Token Cost

    Truncated relevant evidence
        factual_confidence -= according_to
            Importance

    Retrieved authoritative evidence
        factual_confidence += according_to
            Source Reliability

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Context Management
        connects_to
            Large Language Models
            Large Language Model
            Context Window
            Prompt
            Tokenisation
            Retrieval-Augmented Generation
            Tool Use
            Agentic AI
            Conversation Systems
            Summarisation
            Semantic Search
            Generative AI

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        Model identity
        Context capacity
        Instruction hierarchy
        Context item role
        Source provenance
        Temporal order
        Relevance
        Priority
        Token cost
        Truncation state
        Summary linkage

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New input, retrieval, tool result or generated output.

    Compare
        Existing active context.

    Detect
        New Context Item
        Capacity Pressure
        Redundancy
        Stale Context
        Priority Change
        Provenance Change

    Validate
        Source
        Role
        Relevance
        Applicability
        Token cost

    Integrate
        Supported context item.

    Remove_or_compress
        Lower-value context when required.

    Recalculate
        Context occupancy
        Relevance state
        Priority state

    Return
        Updated context-management state.

COHERENCE_CHECK
    Verify
        Active context and full history remain distinct.
        Context management and model training remain distinct.
        Mandatory instructions are preserved while applicable.
        Retrieved evidence retains provenance.
        Tool results retain provenance.
        Summaries remain distinguishable from original sources.
        Truncated content is not treated as directly available.
        Token budget is respected.
        Relevance does not override mandatory constraints.
        All active-context claims follow supported selection paths.

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        →
    Context Management Detection
        →
    Intent Resolution
        →
    Context Capacity Mapping
        →
    Candidate Context Extraction
        →
    Role and Provenance Classification
        →
    Relevance and Priority Evaluation
        →
    Token Cost Assessment
        →
    Selection, Compression and Truncation
        →
    Active Context Construction
        →
    Confidence Assessment
        →
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Context Management

    Parent
        Large Language Models

    Type
        Active inference context selection and control process

    Core Components
        Active Context
        Token Budget
        Context Item
        Relevance Score
        Priority
        Truncation
        Summarisation
        Compression
        Provenance
        Context Update

    Critical Distinction
        Context management controls what information is directly available
        to a model during inference. It does not modify the model's learned
        parameters, and information removed from active context must not be
        treated as directly accessible merely because it existed previously.

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Context Management is the process of constructing and maintaining the
    information directly available to a large language model during
    inference. It selects and prioritises instructions, user input,
    conversation history, retrieved evidence and tool results while
    respecting a finite token budget. When necessary, information may be
    deduplicated, summarised, compressed or truncated. Reliable context
    management preserves instruction hierarchy and source provenance and
    keeps summaries and removed information distinct from the original
    active context.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI

    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org