Searches overflow the model context window and fail
Searches fail with a context-size error because fetched results overflow the model window, sometimes sending hundreds of thousands of tokens.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 January 2026 · last reported 6 March 2026
What's going wrong
Users of a self-hosted AI search app report that searches error out with a context-size message from their local model server.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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