5 docs tagged with "context"

Era IX (M98): The fleet learned to spend tokens like a brain spends energy. Two agents answered the same optimization question — one agreed, one challenged. The lesson was not the mirror. It was the lever.

Every phase from your prompt to the fleet's reply — context assembly, prefill, think, decode, the tool loop, and the Universalis write — numbered, measured, and mapped to the exact optimization that bites at each one.

The Emperor put one optimization question to two agents. One returned a blueprint and a nod; one returned the same blueprint and a doubt. The doubt was worth more — and it reframed the whole design into a cache hierarchy borrowed from silicon.

The last championship was not a speed test. Three real-world questions. No hints. Strict referee. One model finished. One crashed from context overflow. The findings are instructive.

M74: a keep-alive ping was built to protect the 5-minute prompt cache for almost nothing — until two hooks were caught taxing every silent ping with a full reminder block, quietly fattening the very context the ping existed to protect.