Tool Result Size Management

About this workflow

Stop tool outputs from flooding context: budgets per tool, smart truncation, pagination, and reference-based results.

What happens when you run it

1. 1
   The cap comes first; elegance comes after.

   Runs flow-tool-result-size-management-1-budget-every-tool-s-output on Claude Sonnet 4.6
2. 2
   Where the information lives decides how to cut.

   Runs flow-tool-result-size-management-2-truncate-to-preserve-signal on Claude Sonnet 4.6
3. 3
   Big results become navigable, not smaller - and huge ones become pointers.

   Runs flow-tool-result-size-management-3-paginate-lists-and-reference-artifacts on Claude Sonnet 4.6
4. 4
   Context bombs come back unless tests hold the perimeter.

   Runs flow-tool-result-size-management-4-regression-test-the-bounds on Claude Sonnet 4.6

Best for

• •Recurring tasks you currently copy-paste between tools.
• •When a single prompt isn't enough — you need a chain where output(n) feeds prompt(n+1).
• •Fork and adapt if your inputs differ materially from the author's use case.

Models used