The condition where input exceeds the model's context window, so some of it cannot be processed.

Framed as something that happened, like water over a rim, so that a decision about what to discard can be described without anyone appearing to have made it.

• Agentless Grammar: Content does not overflow, it is dropped, and something chose which part.
• Natural Event Framing: Overflow language puts the cause on the volume you supplied rather than the cap that was set.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like a bin the council stopped emptying, with the overflowing rubbish described as the bin's own behavior.

Tetris (1980s) where the stack silently builds toward the top of the well and the game simply ends, without ever naming which pieces caused it.

Input goes past the model's limit and some of it cannot be processed.

“Extended sessions may experience token window overflow.”

“Our conversation went past the limit, so the earliest messages were dropped without any notice in the chat.”