Equation 21 · Part 1 · OpenAI Codex as a Software-Engineering System: Models, Harnesses, and Evidence

Symbol f

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f

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f is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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f is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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Long sessions pose a lossy-state problem. When a transcript exceeds context capacity, a harness may compact earlier interaction into a summary. If $h_{k+1}$ =f( $h_k$ , $o_k$ , $a_k$ ) compresses state, reliability depends on whether f preserves commitments, failed hypotheses, file identities, and unresolved constraints. More context tokens do not remove this requirement; they postpone it.

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