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SESSION 11 · UNDER THE HOOD

Tokens & the Context Window

Find out how Claude actually reads — in tokens, not words — and learn the one habit that fixes most long-chat weirdness: knowing when to start a fresh thread, and what to carry across.

The big idea

Claude reads in tokens, not words, and everything in a thread sits on one desk — that desk is the context window. The desk is big, but available is not the same as useful: quality starts sliding long before it is full, and the free fix is a fresh thread carrying a handoff note.

What the two of you do
  1. Tokens: the pieces Claude actually reads
  2. The context window is a desk, not a library
  3. Available is not the same as useful
  4. The fix is free: a fresh thread, with a handoff
  5. 5 prompt cards to run on the grown-up's account, and the When do you start a fresh thread? game
And what you keep
Save the split that made you laugh: the word that shattered into five ridiculous chunks, or the guess that was off by a mile. One line — the text, whose guess it was, and the real number — added to the Memory Box project, where ten saves are already waiting for it.
The bonding moment

The Token Guessing Duel

Mechanic: prompt duel. The step-by-step — who says what, in what order — comes with the full camp.

What you will both know afterwards
  • Claude reads in tokens — chunks of about three or four characters — not in letters or whole words.
  • Everything in a thread sits on one desk: your messages, Claude's replies, and anything you pasted.
  • If it is not on the desk, Claude does not know it. That is absence, not forgetfulness.
  • A window that is available is not a window that is useful — answers go vague long before it is full.
  • The free fix is a fresh thread plus a handoff note you asked Claude to write for you.

This session is part of the full camp.

Sessions 2 to 15 come with the camp — the full text, every prompt card, the bonding moment written out step by step, the game, the grown-up corner, and the Memory Box save that ends each one. Price: $119 once (about ₹10,300), or free if your child already takes 1:1 classes with us.

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