<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Costs | AI Engineering</title><link>https://ai.devops-monk.com/tags/costs/</link><description>A 23-chapter handbook for Claude Code — permissions, context, skills, hooks, MCP and agents, worked out end to end for engineers who have to ship with it.</description><language>en-us</language><managingEditor>abhaypratap3537@gmail.com (Abhay)</managingEditor><webMaster>abhaypratap3537@gmail.com (Abhay)</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:57:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ai.devops-monk.com/tags/costs/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Context Window</title><link>https://ai.devops-monk.com/2026/09/context-window/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ai.devops-monk.com/2026/09/context-window/</guid><author>abhaypratap3537@gmail.com (Abhay)</author><category>Fundamentals</category><description>The budget every other chapter spends. What is already in the window before you type, what each file read costs, what compaction keeps and drops, and why the prompt cache makes a mid-task model switch more expensive than it looks.</description><enclosure url="https://ai.devops-monk.com/images/articles/cc-08-context-window.webp" type="image/webp" length="0"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://ai.devops-monk.com/images/articles/cc-08-context-window.webp" alt="The Context Window" /></p><p>The budget every other chapter spends. What is already in the window before you type, what each file read costs, what compaction keeps and drops, and why the prompt cache makes a mid-task model switch more expensive than it looks.</p><p><a href="https://ai.devops-monk.com/2026/09/context-window/">Read the full article &rarr;</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>