When History Is Multimodal: Rethinking Context Management for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.29897 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-09-01

Code: https://github.com/openai/codex

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Benchmark — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Visual Rendering — 38× in this paper
Accuracy — 36× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Fidelity — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Agent Harness — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Self-Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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