The Context Bill

Your agent is not slow because it has too many tools. It is paying three separate bills — a resident attention tax charged every turn, a compaction debt charged by the fix, and a measurement illusion that hides whether the capability package was worth anything. A cited accounting of all three, and a decision procedure keyed to which one you are actually paying.

Date: September 10, 2026  |  Estimated Reading Time: 25 min  |  Author: Xueping Gao