Context Routing

Experiment Log · 2026-06-23 · 09:25 AM PT

Hypothesis: A coding agent can spend fewer tokens without losing quality if retrieval, cache, and tool surfaces are gated by evidence instead of injected by default.

Constraint: Public-safe summary only; no private infrastructure names, no client data, and every active change must stay reversible and verified.

Result: Passed. The useful pattern was not more memory by default. It was read-only recall, explicit tool allow-lists, registry freshness checks, cache proposals kept behind offline quality gates, and smoke tests that had to turn green.

Next step: Promote only the optimizations that pass the quality gate; keep semantic replay out of coding, governance, incident, and current-state answers until it earns trust.

Tags: #systems #governance #execution