context engineering

Anthropic is advising companies to evaluate whether they can replace fleets of specialized sub-agents with one primary agent that loads context as needed. In one comparison, the company says the single-agent setup ran about twice as fast. A migration kit is available on GitHub.

IBM Research introduces ALTK-Evolve, an agentic memory system that matches or beats ACE's accuracy on the AppWorld benchmark while cutting inference token costs by up to 86% through selective guideline retrieval instead of full-playbook injection.