Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
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Core agent architecture: memory, token cost tradeoffs
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 23 Jul 2026] Title:Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost by Treating Them as Lifecycle and Architecture Problems View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context: conversation histories, large prompts, large tool definitions, and ballooning tool outputs. Agents drown in their own accumulating history while paying a token cost that grows every turn, producing missing re
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Context management is agents' core problem: schema validation and predictive fetching fix it.
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