Memory · Data artifact

Context Allocation Policy

Data artifactMemoryCognition & Memoryarc:ContextAllocationPolicy

A configuration artifact specifying per-task-type context-window allocation shares, the reserve fraction, utilization thresholds that escalate compression, and the advertised versus enforced capacity.

Responsibility. Declares how context-window capacity is apportioned and when compression escalates.

Also known as: Task-specific allocation policy, Token budget framework

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Relationships

configures structural

Context Budget Allocator Ch5.9

Design guidance

SHOULD distinguish fixed costs (system prompt) from variable costs (retrieved documents, reasoning traces, output) that scale with query complexity and problem difficulty.

Classification

Patterns: Fixed vs variable cost accounting
Quality attributes: Maintainability (ISO/IEC 25010)

Sources

Ch5.9: T. Nguyen, "Working Memory," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 5.9. ISBN: 9798244538229.