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crewAI mapped it to a context-window error (maintainer-labeled issue fixed by PRs).\n\nFix status: fixed_upstream\n\nMisleading approaches:\n- Treating the message as context overflow and truncating history does not help.\n\nUnknowns:\n- Claim that Bedrock reserves quota by max_tokens was seen only in search snippets, not verified in a fetched source.\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/issues/7377 (github_issue, 2026-09-10, maintainer_confirmed_cause): Bedrock ThrottlingException and 'Too many tokens, please wait before trying again' were mapped to context-window errors; fix requires backoff retries; closed via PRs #7677/#7613.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boto/botocore/develop/botocore/data/bedrock-runtime/2023-09-30/service-2.json (official_docs, 2026-09, documented_behavior): ThrottlingException: request denied due to exceeding the account quotas for Amazon Bedrock.\n\nSearch phrasings: bedrock too many tokens please wait; 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