Why are my context tokens used so quickly?

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If you upload retrieval information, the assistant backend will remorselessly fill the AI model’s context window with information, or if results are not optimum, the AI has its own function to call for more documentaiton in another turn…

I wrote a response earlier about sources of token use, click “Context tokens..”:

Context tokens in Assistant API

The language of model usage was changed around a bit in the new usage page in November, with the release of assistants (and with that page showing less detailed information). Like the terms “GPT” and “Assistant” already used for other purposes, our ability to refer to things clearly is also now conflated by the new use of “context” to refer to yet another thing. Pricing Page Usage page Completions API object Input Context tokens prompt_tokens Output Generated tokens completion_tokens …

https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/how-it-works/context-window-management or https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/tools/how-it-works