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Token-Aware Task Decomposition for Agents

Learn strategies for breaking large agentic tasks into smaller chunks to prevent context window overflow, reduce latency, and enable focused reasoning — including subagent delegation, aggressive summarization, and early exit logic.

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Token-Aware Task Decomposition for Agents

# Token-Aware Task Decomposition Long-running agents inevitably hit context window limits. The key insight is to decompose tasks into **phases** with explicit token budgets, compressing state at each phase boundary instead of letting context grow unbounded. ## Core Patterns ### 1. Proactive Compr

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