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    "source": [
     "# How to trim messages\n",
     "\n",
+    ":::info Prerequisites\n",
+    "\n",
+    "This guide assumes familiarity with the following concepts:\n",
+    "\n",
+    "- [Messages](/docs/concepts/#messages)\n",
+    "- [Chat models](/docs/concepts/#chat-models)\n",
+    "- [Chaining](/docs/how_to/sequence/)\n",
+    "- [Chat history](/docs/concepts/#chat-history)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "The methods in this guide also require `langchain-core>=0.2.9`.\n",
+    "\n",
+    ":::\n",
+    "\n",
     "All models have finite context windows, meaning there's a limit to how many tokens they can take as input. If you have very long messages or a chain/agent that accumulates a long message is history, you'll need to manage the length of the messages you're passing in to the model.\n",
     "\n",
     "The `trim_messages` util provides some basic strategies for trimming a list of messages to be of a certain token length.\n",