Prime Intellect says compaction can be framed as a degenerate multi-agent system. Subagents add context windows, and each can work in its own context in parallel if kept alive. But in a tree, cross-branch conversations must pass through the root, which becomes a full window itself.
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Alternatively, we can frame compaction as a (degenerate) multi-agent system.
Subagents add context windows. Each works in its own context, and if you keep them "alive," many windows work at once and you can ask follow-up questions.
But in a tree, every cross-branch conversation goes through the root, and the root becomes the new full window.
Source: Prime Intellect · x.comPublished · added here
