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Context compression for agents

Agent workflows increasingly benefit from compressing long logs, retrieved documents, and intermediate tool outputs before sending them back into a model. Why it matters: Smaller, cleaner context can reduce cost and latency while making multi-step agents easier to inspect and debug.

Try this: Pick one verbose agent trace or research source, summarize it into a compact structured brief, then compare the next model response against the uncompressed version.

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Tommy Z - GitHub Trending Weekly
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