Does an Agent's History Tell You When Compaction Will Hurt? A Modest, Bounded Effect on the TRACE Paired-Replay Corpus.

arXiv:2610.08722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many long-horizon agents compact their context on a global rule, usually a token budget, blind to what the agent was doing. We ask whether the agent's recent behaviour predicts when a compaction will hurt. TRACE'