https://loopandretry.github.io/tags/retrieval/ Recent content in Retrieval on Loop & Retry https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png https://loopandretry.github.io/images/og-default.png Hugo en-us Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/transcript-is-a-log-not-an-index/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 https://loopandretry.github.io/posts/transcript-is-a-log-not-an-index/ Eviction and summarization keep a long-running agent’s window small, but the summaries themselves still accumulate in the linear transcript — and on a run long enough, that accumulation becomes the new quadratic. Past a few hundred steps, the fix isn’t a better compaction policy inside the window. It’s moving history out of the window entirely and querying it like a database instead of replaying it like a log.