How to Cheat LLM Context: A Lightweight AI Doc Assistant Architecture

Dropping your entire Markdown documentation folder into an LLM prompt sounds easy - until you see the API bill. Large contexts mean large costs, especially when users ask repetitive or highly specific questions. When building the documentation assistant for my project, LinkShift.app (a programmable redirect and link-mapping platform running on the edge), I knew the learning curve would be steep for users dealing with Regex, Liquid templates, and edge routing rules. Instead of taking the easy ro...