RCWT: Measuring Task-Budget Displacement from Coordination Content in LLM Calls
Multi-agent and memory-augmented LLM systems often place coordination content, shared state, prior discussion, tool outputs, summaries, and role instructions, inside the same finite prompt used for the current task. This creates a practical allocation problem: every token spent on coordination is unavailable to task instructions or evidence when a call is assembled under a fixed context budget. We introduce the Roundtable Context Window Test (RCWT), a controlled protocol for measuring this task-budget displacement effect. RCWT varies coordination content while controlling total budget, position order, task family, and scoring. In the main context-dependent recall task at $W=4096$, three c...
| Authors | Brenda Lelis, Rodrigo Cabral-Carvalho |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 13 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 July 2026 |
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