Tad MacPherson

The Relocatable Context Window: Training-Free KV Surgery with an Accountable External Store

Long-running agent sessions end in compaction: the context window is summarized and replaced. Across ten compaction boundaries in a month of our own working transcripts (one team, one workload), a median 98.4% of context was discarded, 18.8% of worked file paths and 1.4% of measu...

The Relocatable Context Window: Training-Free KV Surgery with an Accountable External Store

Long-running agent sessions end in compaction: the context window is summarized and replaced. Across ten compaction boundaries in a month of our own working transcripts (one team, one workload), a median 98.4% of context was discarded, 18.8% of worked file paths and 1.4% of measu...