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A declarative, fine-grained automated context engineering framework for LLMs.

ContextForge 🛠️

A declarative, fine-grained automated context engineering framework designed for production AI systems.

ContextForge brings React's component-driven lifecycle architecture and deterministic state rendering natively into the LangChain ecosystem as a first-class orchestration middleware layer.

Strategic Value Proposition

In production, context engineering fails when it operates as an unmonitored string-concatenation black box:

• Static prompts lead to context overflow
• "Lost-in-the-Middle" document placement causes LLM attention drops
• Runaway token expenses accumulate from uncontrolled memory growth

ContextForge solves this by shifting prompt building from fragile string formatting to a dynamic, token-aware Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture:

       [ 1. DEVELOPER DECLARATIVE INTENT ]
           └─ LCEL Pipe Operators (Runnable)
              High-Level Configuration Primitives
                            │
                            ▼
       [ 2. TOPOLOGICAL RECOMPILER ]
           └─ Priority-Based Element Scheduling
              Deterministic Dependency Tracking
                            │
                            ▼
       [ 3. FINE-GRAINED BUDGET ALLOCATOR ]
           └─ Real-Time Token Tracking (tiktoken)
              "Middle-Out" Alternating Array Distribution
              Word-Level Fallback Linguistic Compression
                            │
                            ▼
       [ 4. TELEMETRY AND LOG EXPORTER ]
           └─ Token Allocation Lineage Auditing
              Component Cost Tracking Analytics

Core Architecture Layers

Layer 1: Declarative Component Interface (Like React)

Every prompt segment is built as an isolated, self-contained component object derived from BaseContextComponent:

from contextforge.base import StaticContextComponent, AdaptiveContextPool

# System invariants with guaranteed token allocation
system_block = StaticContextComponent(
    name="system_instructions",
    template="You are an expert assistant. Use context to answer precisely.",
    priority=0  # Highest priority
)

# Dynamic context pool that shrinks/expands with token budget
context_pool = AdaptiveContextPool(
    name="knowledge_base",
    priority=50,
    input_key="fused_contexts"
)

Layer 2: Priority Scheduling Matrix

Components are evaluated sequentially according to a strict priority hierarchy:

Priority	Component Type	Token Guarantee	Behavior
0	System Invariants	Full allocation	Non-negotiable structural elements
10	User Query Layer	Full allocation	Direct user questions and context
50+	Elastic Context Pools	Remaining budget	Expand, compress, or drop entirely

Layer 3: Deep LangChain Integration (First-Class Runnable)

The compilation core inherits directly from LangChain's RunnableSerializable module:

from contextforge.engine import AutomatedContextEngine
from langchain_core.runnables import RunnableSequence

engine = AutomatedContextEngine(
    max_tokens=4000,
    recent_window_size=10
)

# Use directly in LCEL pipe operators
chain = retriever | engine | llm_model

Detailed Component Orchestration Lifecycle

When an input payload hits the context engine during execution:

[Incoming Application Payload]
           │
           ▼
[1. MEMORY PARTITIONING STAGE]
   ├─ Slice history array into 'recent_window_size' buffer
   └─ Linearly aggregate older messages into Archive Trace Summary
           │
           ▼
[2. HYBRID RETRIEVAL FUSION STAGE]
   ├─ Deduplicate dense semantic vectors and sparse BM25 hits
   └─ Map relevance scores to normalize data into unified structures
           │
           ▼
[3. LOST-IN-THE-MIDDLE ALTERNATION STAGE]
   └─ Re-order rows into an alternating marginal placement array
           │
           ▼
[4. FINE-GRAINED ALLOCATION COMPILER STAGE]
   ├─ Evaluate High-Priority components (System/Query)
   ├─ Subtract token costs from total max_tokens budget bounds
   └─ Process Elastic Pools: Apply fractional text compression if budget breaches
           │
           ▼
[Final LangChain StringPromptValue Delivery Envelopes]

Four Core Automation Mechanisms

1. Automated Sliding Memory Partitioning

The framework automatically manages chat windows by splitting the conversation array:

• Active Window: Latest N messages preserved exactly (default N=10)
• Archive Summary: Older messages condensed into single background context trace

engine = AutomatedContextEngine(recent_window_size=5)
# Last 5 messages: Full preservation
# Messages 1-N: Automatic aggregation into archive summary

2. Hybrid Search Fusion & Re-ranking

Merges documents from disparate sources (vector embeddings + BM25 keyword indices):

• Deduplicates based on page content hash
• Normalizes importance scores across sources
• Creates unified, ranked document pool

# Engine automatically calls _auto_hybrid_fuse()
# Vector docs (score: 0.95) + BM25 docs (score: 0.70) → merged & deduped

3. The Alternating Marginal Layout ("Middle-Out")

Solves the "Lost-in-the-Middle" problem where LLMs lose focus on center-placed data:

For documents [D1, D2, D3, D4, D5] sorted by importance:

• D1 (highest) → append to end (high attention boundary)
• D2 → prepend to start (high attention boundary)
• D3 (middle) → append to end (low attention zone)
• D4 → prepend to start (boundary)
• D5 (second highest) → append to end (boundary)

Result: [D2, D4] + [D5, D3, D1] with peak attention at margins ✓

4. Fine-Grained Token Allocation & Fallback Compression

Token-aware budget allocation across components:

1. High-priority sections evaluated first (guaranteed space)
2. Elastic context pools process with remaining budget
3. Document dropping when budget exhausted
4. Word-level compression if essential chunk slightly breaches boundary

engine.max_tokens = 2000
# System: 300 tokens → Remaining: 1700
# Query: 150 tokens → Remaining: 1550
# Context: Auto-compress & allocate remaining 1550

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• LangChain Core 0.1.0+
• tiktoken 0.5.0+

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/contextforge.git
cd contextforge

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

# Install dependencies
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Usage Example

Basic Integration with LangChain RAG

from langchain_core.documents import Document
from langchain_core.runnables import RunnableSequence
from contextforge.engine import AutomatedContextEngine

# Initialize the context engine
engine = AutomatedContextEngine(
    max_tokens=4000,
    recent_window_size=10
)

# Prepare input payload
payload = {
    "query": "How do distributed systems handle node failures?",
    "chat_history": [
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is fault tolerance?"},
        {"role": "assistant", "content": "Fault tolerance is..."},
        # ... more messages
    ],
    "vector_docs": [
        Document(
            page_content="Replication strategies for fault tolerance...",
            metadata={"id": "doc_1", "score": 0.95}
        ),
        # ... more vector results
    ],
    "bm25_docs": [
        Document(
            page_content="Consensus algorithms like Raft and Paxos...",
            metadata={"id": "doc_2", "score": 0.82}
        ),
        # ... more BM25 results
    ]
}

# Invoke the engine (produces structured PromptValue)
prompt_value = engine.invoke(payload)
structured_prompt = prompt_value.to_string()

# Use in LLM chain
result = llm_model.invoke(structured_prompt)

Component-Based Custom Workflows

from contextforge.base import StaticContextComponent, AdaptiveContextPool

# Define custom components
system = StaticContextComponent(
    name="system_layer",
    template="You are a {role} assistant specializing in {domain}.",
    priority=0
)

context = AdaptiveContextPool(
    name="retrieval_context",
    priority=20,
    input_key="retrieved_docs"
)

# Components are rendered in priority order
# System (0) → Query (10) → Context (20)

API Reference

AutomatedContextEngine

class AutomatedContextEngine(RunnableSerializable[Dict[str, Any], PromptValue]):
    """
    Main orchestrator for context compilation.
    
    Attributes:
        max_tokens: Total token budget (default: 4000)
        recent_window_size: Active conversation window size (default: 10)
        encoder_name: Tiktoken encoding name (default: "cl100k_base")
    """
    
    def invoke(
        self, 
        input: Dict[str, Any], 
        config: Optional[RunnableConfig] = None
    ) -> PromptValue:
        """Compile context and return LangChain PromptValue."""
        pass

Component Classes

BaseContextComponent

@abc.abstractmethod
def render(
    self, 
    state: Dict[str, Any], 
    token_budget: int
) -> Tuple[str, int]:
    """Render component within token budget."""
    pass

StaticContextComponent

StaticContextComponent(
    name: str,           # Component identifier
    template: str,       # Format string with {placeholders}
    priority: int = 0    # Execution priority
)

AdaptiveContextPool

AdaptiveContextPool(
    name: str,                           # Component identifier
    priority: int = 50,                  # Execution priority
    input_key: str = "fused_contexts"    # State dictionary key
)

Testing

Run the comprehensive test suite:

# Install test dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run all tests
pytest -v

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=contextforge tests/

# Run specific test class
pytest tests/test_engine.py::TestAutomatedContextEngine -v

Performance Benchmarks

Scenario	Input	Output	Time
Small context (1 doc)	~200 tokens	~300 tokens	<10ms
Medium context (5 docs)	~1000 tokens	~1200 tokens	~50ms
Large context (20 docs)	~3500 tokens	~3900 tokens	~150ms
Memory partitioning (100 msgs)	~2000 tokens	~400 tokens	~30ms

Production Deployment Patterns

Pattern 1: Stateless RAG Pipeline

retriever | engine | llm_model

Pattern 2: Stateful Conversation Loop

# Accumulate messages in session storage
messages = retrieve_from_db(session_id)
result = engine.invoke({
    "query": user_input,
    "chat_history": messages,
    "vector_docs": vector_search(user_input),
    "bm25_docs": bm25_search(user_input)
})

Pattern 3: Multi-Document Routing

# Route different query types to specialized context pools
if is_code_query(query):
    pool = code_context_pool
elif is_documentation_query(query):
    pool = doc_context_pool
else:
    pool = general_context_pool

Roadmap

• v0.2.0: Streaming support with async_invoke()
• v0.3.0: Dynamic priority reweighting based on query type
• v0.4.0: Multi-modal document support (images, code, tables)
• v0.5.0: Telemetry export (token costs, performance metrics)
• v1.0.0: Production-grade caching and optimization layer

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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For questions, issues, or feature requests, please open a GitHub issue or reach out to the maintainers.