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# Get Message Count • AI Agent SDK

> get_message_count: Get the number of messages in the transcript window.

# get\_message\_count

Method

> This is a method of the [**PreparedTurnContext**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/classes/PreparedTurnContext.md) class in the [**turn\_context**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/turn_context.md) module.

Get the number of messages in the transcript window.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def get_message_count() -> int
```

### Returns

**Returns** `int`

The result of the operation.

## Used By

* [`DefaultTurnContextBuilder.build_context`](../functions/DefaultTurnContextBuilder-build_context)
* [`PreparedTurnContext.to_dict`](../functions/PreparedTurnContext-to_dict)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/runtime/turn_context.py#L247)
>
> `praisonaiagents/runtime/turn_context.py` at line 247


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