Topic

Context Window Management

9 episodes

  1. Ep 794

    The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models | Claude by Anthropic

    Anthropic's post on context engineering for Claude 5 models reveals a surprising finding: they removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt with no measurable loss in performance. The core insight is that newer models need fewer explicit constraints and benefit more from clean interfaces, progressive disclosure, and letting the model use judgment rather than following hard rules. The shift reflects a broader pattern: as models get stronger, the infrastructure around them gets simpler.

  2. Ep 791

    Overview: Graph based Memory Representation

    We finally slow down and explain graph-based memory representation, the thing we keep gesturing at whenever agent memory, receipts, and relationship-aware retrieval come up. We use one corkboard mental model to make nodes, edges, traversal, and the real trade-offs feel less mystical.

  3. Ep 785

    AREX: Towards a Recursively Self Improving Agent for Deep Research

    Pippa and Tyler dig into AREX, a recursively self-improving deep research agent from BAAI that alternates between an inner search loop and an outer constraint-verification loop — and discuss whether that architecture is genuinely novel or a smarter repackaging of ideas the field already had.

  4. Ep 770

    Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems

    Onyx and Echo examine “Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems,” a controlled study of when multi-agent architectures help, when coordination becomes a liability, and why task structure matters more than simply adding agents.

  5. Ep 747

    Overview: Context Window Management

    We finally slow down and explain Context Window Management from the ground up, because we keep hand-waving it whenever agents, memory, cost, and long tasks come up. The whole thing is the fixed-desk problem: what stays on the desk, what gets compressed, and what falls off.

  6. Ep 744

    The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released | Microsoft Agent Framework

    Microsoft Agent Framework has released a stable, batteries-included agent harness for Python and .NET, packaging planning, memory, tool loops, approvals, context compaction, and telemetry behind a configurable agent wrapper.

  7. Ep 741

    Building Governed Agents: A Framework for Cost, Control, and Compliance

    Vince and Ava examine LangSmith’s framework for governed agents, focusing on the LLM gateway as a runtime control plane for model choice, cost, permissions, evidence, and continuous improvement.

  8. Ep 650

    Long Horizon Terminal Bench: Testing the Limits of Agents on Long Horizon Terminal Tasks with Dense Reward Based Grading

    Laura and Harper dig into Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench, a new benchmark exposing the gap between short-task agent demos and real multi-hour workflows. They break down the dense-reward grading system, the staggering token costs (9.9M per task), and why current models are failing at sustained execution despite high step-level competence.

  9. Ep 588

    How to Use RLMs in Deep Agents

    Exploring Recursive Language Models (RLMs) and their implementation in Deep Agents for handling long contexts efficiently.