Fighting agent verbosity: injecting "in as few words as possible" into every prompt
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-27
The author complains that their planning agent's verbosity knows no limits, and plans to build the simplest Pavlovian harness that injects "in as few words as possible" into every prompt to curb it.
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