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Folio: Recoverable Multi-Resolution Context Folding for Long-Horizon Language Agents
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Folio manages long-context language agents by recording history at three levels and programmatically folding older turns into coarser summaries while preserving recovery handles.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building AI agents that run multi-step tasks and hit context window limits, needing faster and cheaper execution than model-based summarization.
- Watch out
- Results shown only on LOCA-bench tasks with DeepSeek-V4-Pro; generalization to other models, domains, and real-world agent workflows remains undemonstrated.
- agent
- context window
- long-horizon
The patterns behind this
- Agent Context Preservation and Recovery
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Filesystem as Context (Context Offloading)
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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