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Skills2026-07-30 · source-backed
Ten skills inlined at ~2,000 tokens each burns 20,000 tokens on knowledge the agent mostly doesn't need. Carry only names and one-line descriptions in the system prompt at roughly 100 tokens per skill, and expose a load_skill(name) tool that returns the full body wrapped in a tag when the model asks. Documented in a 72,734-star teardown alongside context compaction, subagent spawning, and worktree-isolated parallel execution as separately implementable units.
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The diagnosis in this paper is better than the fix, and the fix is very good. Recurrent memory agents fail at long context, but not for the reason most people assume. The bottleneck isn't capture. It's retention. Retention falls below 30% at 896K tokens because every consolida...
semantica-agi/semantica jumped to 4,562 stars (507 forks, 2,270 commits), trending second overall. Its pitch aims directly at the embeddings-only status quo: "They store embeddings, not meaning: context that can't be explained, decisions that can't be audited." Pipeline runs I...
Release notes almost never say "we removed a feature because the evals said it doesn't work." Deep Agents v0.7, landed July 29, says it twice. LangChain removed the base system prompt entirely. Trimmed tool descriptions by 43%. Net effect: base input tokens dropped roughly 65%...
27,552 stars. Memories, resources and skills stored as a virtual filesystem under a viking:// protocol that agents navigate with ls, tree and find instead of querying an opaque vector store, preserving each query's directory-browsing trajectory for debugging. Three tiers loade...
book-to-skill (14,194 stars, +595 today) compiles a PDF into a ~4K-token SKILL.md plus ~1K-token per-chapter files loaded on demand, reporting 24-51x fewer tokens than dumping the book and ~5K tokens resident versus 119K-256K for a context dump, at roughly $1 per book to conve...
rust-v0.150.1, published August 27, fixes remote compaction ignoring retained images when computing token budget; it now trims older images as needed (GitHub). Sessions passing screenshots to a vision-capable agent were budgeting as though those images cost nothing, which prod...
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