diff --git a/nanochat/gpt.py b/nanochat/gpt.py
index 04ee5c5..168ebb8 100644
--- a/nanochat/gpt.py
+++ b/nanochat/gpt.py
@@ -396,12 +396,15 @@ class GPT(nn.Module):
     def forward(self, idx, targets=None, kv_cache=None, loss_reduction='mean'):
         B, T = idx.size()
 
-        # Grab the rotary embeddings for the current sequence length (they are of shape (1, seq_len, 1, head_dim/2))
-        assert T <= self.cos.size(1), f"Sequence length grew beyond the rotary embeddings cache: {T} > {self.cos.size(1)}"
-        assert idx.device == self.cos.device, f"Rotary embeddings and idx are on different devices: {idx.device} != {self.cos.device}"
-        assert self.cos.dtype == COMPUTE_DTYPE, f"Rotary embeddings must be in {COMPUTE_DTYPE}, got {self.cos.dtype}"
         # if kv cache exists, we need to offset the rotary embeddings to the current position in the cache
         T0 = 0 if kv_cache is None else kv_cache.get_pos()
+        # Dynamically grow rotary cache if needed (e.g. few-shot eval prompts exceed training seq_len * 10)
+        if T0 + T > self.cos.size(1):
+            self.rotary_seq_len = T0 + T
+            head_dim = self.config.n_embd // self.config.n_head
+            self.cos, self.sin = self._precompute_rotary_embeddings(self.rotary_seq_len, head_dim)
+        assert idx.device == self.cos.device, f"Rotary embeddings and idx are on different devices: {idx.device} != {self.cos.device}"
+        assert self.cos.dtype == COMPUTE_DTYPE, f"Rotary embeddings must be in {COMPUTE_DTYPE}, got {self.cos.dtype}"
         cos_sin = self.cos[:, T0:T0+T], self.sin[:, T0:T0+T] # truncate cache to current sequence length
 
         # Forward the trunk of the Transformer