# Prototyper assistant meltdown Sorry, I hit a snag

**URL:** <https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 23, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305 "2025-05-23T16:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![3r0g](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/3r0g/32/7029_2.png) [@3r0g](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/3r0g)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305/1 "2025-05-23T16:06:18Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/idxcommunity/original/2X/0/0d7af384f24fabdcb20839cc524564372f053f3b.png)  
been experience this since 5/22, every prompt i try to send end up with this.  
As a totally freshmen to IT it’s impossible to continue with the project without Gemini  
I see im not alone, so it’s crucial for us to solve this.

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**Author:** ![t\_rec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/t_rec/32/6915_2.png) [@t\_rec](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/t_rec)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305/2 "2025-05-23T16:09:40Z")

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it’s really very bad. so disappointing. so stressful.

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**Author:** ![Edwin\_Dingjan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/edwin_dingjan/32/6140_2.png) [@Edwin\_Dingjan](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/Edwin_Dingjan)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305/3 "2025-05-26T14:50:17Z")

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For me starting yesterday again, the protyper is doing this. When I go to code I can work, but I am not a code expert. How should we continue?  
Already reset the workspace. tried two days…but a snag keeps coming up?  
It is a medium size project …but is that it…only small projects will do?

[@Googler](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/groups/googler) What shall we do?

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**Author:** ![DaC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.firebasestudio.dev/dac/32/6866_2.png) [@DaC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/u/DaC)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/prototyper-assistant-meltdown-sorry-i-hit-a-snag/13305/4 "2025-05-26T17:10:36Z")

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@Edwin_Dingjan Your problem is most likely context size, you can even check the current context size:

- run this command in terminal:

```
timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S); mkdir -p "/home/user/studio/context/context_backup/" && cp "/home/user/.idx/ai/capra-context-state.json" "/home/user/studio/context/context_backup/capra-context-state-${timestamp}.json" && cp "/home/user/.idx/ai/capra-thread.json" "/home/user/studio/context/context_backup/capra-thread-${timestamp}.json"
```

- it will copy the context files from the prototyper to a new folder context/context\_backup
- download these file
- then go to [https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/new\_chat](https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/new_chat)
- paste the files to the chat, it displays the total tokens for the file.

my project was close to 3 millions tokens and I was having a really hard time using the prototyper, now it’s all good

here is what you need to do to safely clear the context from your project:

> [@How-to Enabling Prototyper on Existing Project + Prototyper Full Context Clear](https://community.firebasestudio.dev/t/how-to-enabling-prototyper-on-existing-project-prototyper-full-context-clear/13781):
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> Background: People trying to bring their existing project (local machine, github, other cloud, etc) realize they can’t use the prototyper interface, only the code view, which uses a different model. With time the prototyper context memory gets huge and this ends up causing some troubles: Slow Speeds Frequent VM locks (Infinite Loading - reset needed) Uncomplete interactions Reduced Context Precision Old code being randomly and frequently reintroduced Additional errors like exceeding input tok…