OpenClaw users seek smaller contexts
A Reddit user says local OpenClaw setups work well with online models, but the 100k-150k token contexts common in agent runs become the bottleneck once they switch to local inference. The post asks for a repeatable way to shrink prompt size without waiting for more GPU capacity.
Bigger hardware helps, but the real fix is usually architectural: an agent should stop dragging every log, note, and intermediate thought into the next call. Keep durable state out of the live prompt by summarizing prior steps and storing long-term memory separately. Strip tool output aggressively so each turn only reloads the few files, snippets, or commands that matter right now. Break work into narrower phases or sub-agents so the model sees smaller objectives instead of one giant catch-all context. Local agent stacks tend to bloat fastest when session history, codebase scans, and action logs are all treated as equally important.
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