Search Agents Waste Half Their Tokens Rediscovering Entity Links
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If you wire an LLM agent to a local directory of documents and give it terminal tools (grep, find, cat), you quickly notice an ugly pattern. When a question depends on evidence scattered across three separate files, the agent spends most of its trajectory wandering in circles. It greps for a keywor…
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- 2026-09-30 16:29 · DEV Community — AI
Search Agents Waste Half Their Tokens Rediscovering Entity Links