Comment by ClintEhrlich

8 days ago

By construction, individual summaries are not typically large enough to overload the context window when expanded.

The reason that the volume is potentially arbitrarily large is that one sub-agent can call lcm_expand multiple times - either vertically or horizontally. But that's a process that occurs gradually as the tool is used repeatedly.

This has not been a problem in our testing, but if it were a problem it would be easy to prevent sub-agents from invoking lcm_expand once their context buffer has reached a specified threshold.

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kretaceous  7 days ago

Suppose there's the following situation:

    Summary A = summarise(message 1 to P)
    Summary B = summarise(Summary A, message P+1 to Q)
    Summary C = summarise(Summary B, message Q+1 to R)

What does calling lcm_expand(Summary C) do? Does it unroll all messages from message 1 to message R or does it unroll to Summary B and message Q+1 to R?

> volume is potentially arbitrarily large is that one sub-agent can call lcm_expand multiple times - either vertically or horizontally

I'm assuming from this that it's the latter? In that case, that addresses my concern about not blowing up the context window immediately.