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Context Packer

Every RAG system plays this game silently on every query: a token budget, a pile of candidate chunks, and a decision about what makes the cut. Pack the context window yourself, ship it, and get scored against the exact dynamic-programming optimum. Relevance is hidden until you commit — just like production.

GAME 05 · CONTEXT PACKER

Fit the truth in the window

retrieval's real endgame: what do you NOT send to the model?

total 0level 1/3HI ---

query: "why did ingestion corrupt 22% of documents?" — pick chunks, stay under budget, maximize relevance:

0 / 800 tokens

This is the knapsack problem wearing a RAG costume — and it's genuinely what rerankers decide thousands of times a day. The poem never helps.

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