Source motivation
Memento and recent context-engineering research emphasize compact, reusable intermediate context artifacts that preserve future-use signal while materially reducing context cost.
Problem
Perseus can assemble rich context, but it does not yet treat compact derivative context artifacts as a first-class product surface.
Proposal
Add memento-style context compaction artifacts to Perseus.
Potential scope:
- introduce a compact artifact tier distinct from full context and narrative summary
- preserve task objective, constraints, unresolved questions, evidence anchors, and next-step recommendations
- expose token-budget-aware generation and evaluation paths
- benchmark compact artifacts against full context on representative tasks
Why now
Recent research shows context compaction is not just an optimization detail. It can materially improve cost-efficiency and downstream reasoning quality when done well.
Success criteria
- compact artifacts consistently smaller than full task context
- no major regression in benchmark task quality
- measurable reduction in context budget consumption
Source motivation
Memento and recent context-engineering research emphasize compact, reusable intermediate context artifacts that preserve future-use signal while materially reducing context cost.
Problem
Perseus can assemble rich context, but it does not yet treat compact derivative context artifacts as a first-class product surface.
Proposal
Add memento-style context compaction artifacts to Perseus.
Potential scope:
Why now
Recent research shows context compaction is not just an optimization detail. It can materially improve cost-efficiency and downstream reasoning quality when done well.
Success criteria