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Agents2026-06-20 · source-backed
"Less Context, Better Agents" shows that long-horizon, tool-using agents drowning in verbose tool responses complete tasks reliably with just a recency window and a compact running summary (arXiv:2606.10209). This is a useful corrective to the reflex of bolting RAG onto everything. Before you stand up a vector store for your agent's working memory, try recency plus summary and measure whether you actually lose anything. Most of the time you won't, and you'll have skipped a whole moving part.
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arXiv 2608.00765 compresses retrieved docs into query-conditioned visual representations, sidestepping the trade-off where hard compression is query-aware but weak and soft compression is strong but needs costly offline encoding. Beats both baselines across varying retrieval d...
Two numbers from this paper should change what you do with your .claude/skills directory this week. First: 65.7% of the benefit from agent skills comes from procedural anchoring. Explicit knowledge injection accounts for 4.5%. Second: expand the skill pool from 5 items to 100,...
BFCL v4 results show PTC matching or beating JSON tool calling on 11 of 14 models, with the GPT-5.6 family up 10.6% and better stability under context degradation and parallel execution. Most agent frameworks hard-code structured output as the default. On current models that d...
A June 15 paper introduces 442 expert-curated Nature Portfolio meta-analyses against a 140,000-article PubMed corpus, benchmarking twelve pipeline configs. No system recovered more than 52.7% of ground-truth included literature, even at 90.9% retrieval recall at K=200. The bot...
1. Flip your multi-model pipeline to review-then-generate. Instead of using a reasoning model to plan before code generation, let the specialist generate freely and use reasoning tokens for review. Paper shows 90.2% pass@1 vs 87.2% for the planning pattern. Source 2. Audit you...
RAGAS-style evaluation checks correctness against a frozen snapshot, which means routine document updates and corrections can silently break production without moving a dashboard. This ASE 2026 paper defines 11 mutation operators perturbing at both the pre-chunk index level an...
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