Prime Intellect argues context compaction is a degenerate multi-agent system

AIPrime Intellect says compaction can be framed as a degenerate multi-agent system. Subagents add context windows, and each can work in its own context in parallel if kept alive. But in a tree, cross-branch conversations must pass through the root, which becomes a full window itself.

AIPrime Intellect says compaction summarizes a full context window and passes the summary to the next one, but each summary is a guess about what will matter later. Offloading memory to a filesystem or REPL avoids that guess, but files cannot reason, so the agent must load them back into its window and spend the context it was trying to save.