Agent Architecture

2 articles

AI Engineering • Aug 12, 2026

Agent context compaction: keep what the 150K cutoff drops

Agent context compaction drops every block before the summary at 150K tokens. What survives, what instructions silently replaces, and the usage field that lies.

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AI Engineering • Aug 6, 2026

Run agent tool calls in parallel: 10 turns become 2 DAG levels

Run agent tool calls in parallel by swapping the loop for a DAG planner: ten round trips become two levels, plus the cap, budget and critic on top.

10 min read