Context

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Overview

Context management in Lindy gives you direct control over your agent’s memory and attention. Perfect for:

• Prioritizing important information — anything you add to context gets favored in future decisions
• Managing token costs — clear context when it gets too large or expensive
• Focusing agent attention — remove distractions and highlight what matters
• Advanced memory control — combine with variables for sophisticated patterns

Context accrual happens automatically behind the scenes, but these actions give you more control.

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Add Context Action

• What it does: Explicitly adds important information to your agent’s working memory, ensuring it’s prioritized in all future decisions.

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Inputs

• Contextt: The information you want to add to context

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Outputs

• Context Reference: Can be referenced as an output in other actions
• Updated Context: The agent’s context is updated behind the scenes

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Clear Task Context Action

• What it does: Removes all or selected context to reduce token usage and refocus your agent’s attention on what matters most.

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Inputs

• Message: Instructions for what to preserve — like “preserve customer contacts or important information that will stay after the context is cleared”

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Outputs

• Cleared Status: Confirmation of what was removed
• Remaining Context: What context (if any) was preserved

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When to Use Context Actions

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Add Context

Use when you need to prioritize information:

• Customer details when a call or conversation starts
• Critical findings that should influence all future decisions
• Process state that other actions need to know about
• Error conditions that need to be tracked

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Clear Context

Use to manage costs and focus:

• When context gets large and expensive
• Switching between different workflow phases
• Processing multiple independent items
• Need to eliminate distractions

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Best Practices

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Next Steps