arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.MA2026-07-13
RCWT: Measuring Task-Budget Displacement from Coordination Content in LLM Calls
Brenda Lelis, Rodrigo Cabral-Carvalho
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 o…