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Adding irrelevant tokens alone degrades reasoning, which is the mechanism by which a bloated context hurts an agent.

Capability: Keeping its own context clean

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Status: activeLast checked: 2026-09-03Evidence activityHow much the field cites the sources under this claimheavily cited in the last 12 months104 in 12mo · 238 total — Same Task, More Tokens: the Impact of Input Length on the Reasoning Performance of Large Language Models
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