I initially thought that getting agents to work for longer and in large groups was the future, but I'm increasingly thinking that, at least for engineering, just one thread makes more sense. The agent pulls things into context as needed. One thing that I've been experimenting with is also letting the agent remove things from context, such as files. But just adding to the context and compacting when it's full seems like it might beat a lot of more advanced options. Because the model is good, it knows what to put in the summary; just enough for the model to be able to rebuild the context from that seed (e.g. pulling in relevant files/data into the context).