Context as Infrastructure: Knowledge Compilation for Retrieval in Agentic Systems with Harnesses
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Researchers propose context compilation for agentic search harnesses to reduce redundant retrieval costs and window congestion.
Inspect the evidence
- Inclusion basis
- Enterprise AI
- Publisher and source type
- arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language · RESEARCH
- Published by source
- 2 November 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 3 Nov 2026, 02:01 UK
Stored source excerpt
arXiv:2610.41172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation is becoming agentic. A search harness writes queries, reads results, reformulates, and decides when to stop. This largely…
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Institutional assessment
So what
Agentic search loops trade context window efficiency and inference costs for accuracy gains when querying document stores.
Do what
Review context-window management and token consumption patterns with the team responsible for building agentic enterprise retrieval systems.