[fhd2]

I'm still having relatively disastrous results compared to just sending pre curated context (i.e. calling tools deterministically upfront) to the model.

Doesn't cover all the use cases, but for information retrieval stuff, the difference is pretty light and day. Not to mention the deterministic context management approach is quite a bit cheaper in terms of tokens.

[visarga]

I find letting the agent iterate search leads to better results. It can direct the search dynamically.