Equation 12 · Part 1 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in AI Agent Architecture
Symbol b
What this part means
whatever the agent’s context window currently represents.
Its job in the formula
b 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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Where the article explains it
Applied to a long-running LLM agent, s is everything true about the task — every file changed, every external call made, every fact established — and b is whatever the agent’s context window currently represents.
The passage around this formula
…larger memory requirement, just to stay confident [ 4 ] . Applied to a long-running LLM agent, s is everything true about the task — every file changed, every external call made, every fact established — and b is whatever the agent’s context window currently represents. The update above is exact only if the full state and its full history are kept; an agent cannot keep them, because the context window is finite and every token inside it costs money and attention.
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