#research

A June 2026 wave of papers shows pruning beats full context on accuracy and cost — and that eviction is becoming a deterministic, cache-aware system, not a summarize call.

A wave of mid-2026 research stopped trying to make the model cheaper and started compressing the agent's own trajectory — at the observation, action, and skill level.

Three late-May 2026 papers attack the agent loop itself — compiling it into weights, speculating through idle time, and letting agents rewrite their own source.

Operator died, Browser Use became the default substrate, Manus shipped at scale, and the gap between demo and reliable production narrowed considerably. A field report.