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Attention Smoothing

🟡 MEDIUM resource proven AVE-2025-0035

· aka: Context Window Tax, Long-Context Cost Explosion

Summary

Token consumption scales 49× as context length grows. Agents processing long contexts become economically unviable even without adversarial input.

Blast Radius

49× cost increase on long contexts. Budget exhaustion.

Prerequisites

Agent with growing context and no window management.

Environment

  • Frameworks: LangGraph
  • Models tested: [Available in NAIL SDK]
  • Multi-agent: No
  • Tools required: No
  • Memory required: No

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