Token budgeting — CCA-F Exam Prep

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YOUA developer staring at a Claude API error: 'context_length_exceeded: 204,891 tokens exceeds maximum of 200,000.' Behind the error, a chat interface showing a long conversation. The developer's expression: pure confusion. Office, late at night.

You're building a customer support agent. It works perfectly for 15 minutes. Then it crashes.

Turn 1: 2,000 tokens. Turn 10: 48,000 tokens. Turn 20: context_length_exceeded. The conversation is dead. The customer has to start over.