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  Few server logs trigger as much immediate frustration as the   400 InvalidRequestError . Specifically, the message: "This model's maximum context length is 4097 tokens. However, your messages resulted in 4502 tokens. Please reduce the length of the messages." For developers building stateful chatbots, this error is inevitable. As a conversation grows, the chat history appended to the prompt eventually surpasses the model's "context window." When this happens, the API rejects the request entirely. Simply truncating the history is a band-aid solution that lobotomizes your bot, causing it to forget critical context established early in the session. To solve this at a production level, you need a strategy that balances  token precision ,  context retention , and  cost efficiency . This guide covers the root cause of context overflow and implements a "Summary-Buffer" strategy using Python,  tiktoken , and LangChain. The Anatomy of the Context Window T...