More stored knowledge does not mean more should be loaded
Type: types/note.md
Retaining a note and loading it into a model’s context are different operations. A wiki can keep material for future work without supplying all of it to every task.
When a task needs only part of the retained material, selecting that part leaves room for the task instructions and other relevant information. This explains why building a larger wiki does not require loading a larger context on every request.
Scope
This argument does not establish that each added note improves answer quality. Notes may be irrelevant, inaccurate, or redundant. It also does not establish that a particular selection method retrieves the right notes.
Relevant Notes:
- Context efficiency is the central design concern in agent systems — grounds: task instructions and retrieved knowledge compete for a finite context window.
- Instruction specificity should match loading frequency — extends: develops a related context-design question about how frequently instructions are loaded.