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Vodou system adds prompt writer registry to manage LLM context budget

A software system called Vodou has been updated to better manage the context window of large language models by introducing a registry for prompt writers. Initially designed with five context lanes, an audit revealed seven, and later an eighth was added, highlighting an issue where individual code components were writing to prompts without a centralized registration system. The new registry, defined in a TOML file, requires each prompt-writing component to declare its name, budget, priority, and overflow handling, with a new rule in the coherence guard script enforcing this registration to prevent uncounted context injections. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM application reliability by ensuring all prompt injections are accounted for, preventing unexpected context window overflows.

RANK_REASON The item describes a specific software engineering improvement to manage prompt context in an LLM application, which is a tooling-level update.

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Vodou system adds prompt writer registry to manage LLM context budget

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Chad Priest ·

    Your prompt has more writers than your context budget knows about

    <p>Your agent probably has a context budget somewhere. Maybe it's a cap on retrieved chunks, or a limit on tool output. Here's a different question: how many separate pieces of code add text to the request your model actually receives? I don't mean how many you designed. I mean h…