How a 2026 AI agent is built, what has grown out of that design, why it forgets, guesses and agrees too easily, and eight habits for working with those limits.
A demo halved one AI bill with extra context. Here is a twenty-task test an owner can run, and why that demo's own tokens and dollars fell by different amounts.
A September preprint lets a model edit its own context as a file. The gains are the authors' own, mostly zero-shot, and not yet replicated. Here is what holds.
A cited read of two AI Engineer talks: the ACP protocol for driving coding agents, and why agents fail on context, with one origin claim corrected and two numbers kept honest.