A lightweight context management library for LLM applications
Project description
ContextHub
A lightweight Python library for managing LLM context windows. It helps structure context items, estimate token usage, prioritize what stays when budget is limited, and split long text into smaller chunks.
Features
- Context window management with token budgets
- Priority-aware context selection (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW)
- Chunking utilities — by tokens, sentences, paragraphs, or custom separator
- Zero-dependency default install with optional
tiktokenintegration - OpenAI-compatible message format export
Installation
pip install contexthub
Optional tokenizer support for accurate token counting:
pip install "contexthub[tiktoken]"
Quick Start
Build a prioritized context window
from contexthub import ContextWindow, Priority
window = ContextWindow(max_tokens=50)
window.add("You are a precise assistant.", priority=Priority.CRITICAL, role="system")
window.add("Summarize this document in 3 bullet points.", priority=Priority.HIGH, role="user")
window.add("Previous conversation detail that can be dropped first.", priority=Priority.LOW)
selected_items = window.build()
messages = window.to_messages()
print([item.priority.name for item in selected_items])
print(messages)
Chunk long text
from contexthub import chunk_by_tokens, chunk_by_sentences, chunk_by_paragraphs, chunk_by_separator
text = "This is sentence one. This is sentence two. This is sentence three."
print(chunk_by_sentences(text, max_sentences=2))
print(chunk_by_tokens(text, max_tokens=10, overlap=2))
print(chunk_by_paragraphs("Paragraph one.\n\nParagraph two.\n\nParagraph three."))
print(chunk_by_separator("a|b|c", separator="|"))
Utility helpers
from contexthub import count_tokens, trim_to_fit
text = "This is a long context block for a tight budget"
print(count_tokens(text))
print(trim_to_fit(text, max_tokens=6))
API Summary
ContextWindow
ContextWindow(max_tokens=4096, tokenizer=None)add(content, priority=Priority.MEDIUM, role="user", metadata=None)— Add a context itembuild()— Build context fitting within token budget, prioritizedto_messages()— Export as OpenAI-compatible message listclear()— Clear all itemstotal_tokens— Current total token countremaining_tokens— Remaining token budgetitems— All items in the window
Types
ContextItem— Dataclass with content, priority, role, metadata, token_countPriority— Enum: CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW
Chunking
chunk_by_tokens(text, max_tokens, overlap=0, tokenizer=None)chunk_by_sentences(text, max_sentences=5)chunk_by_paragraphs(text)chunk_by_separator(text, separator="\n")
Priority Helpers
select_by_priority(items, max_tokens, tokenizer=None)trim_to_fit(text, max_tokens, tokenizer=None, suffix="...")
Tokenizer
count_tokens(text, model=None)
Development
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest tests/ -v
python -m build
License
Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.
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