Equation 17 · Part 1 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence
Symbol q_k
What this part means
the model’s query or action.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol q_k→Article meaning
Where the article explains it
where is the model’s query or action and is a context budget.
The passage around this formula
where is the model’s query or action and is a context budget. Two agents using the same model can behave differently because their observation functions expose different facts, truncate different histories, or describe tools differently.
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