arxivcs.AIcs.CLcs.SE2026-07-20
Is Progressive Disclosure All You Need for Long-Context Agents?
Yifeng He, Yinzhe Zhao, Jicheng Wang, Hao Chen
Long-document question answering usually forces a choice between loading the whole document into the context window and bolting on a separate retriever. Agentic AI suggests a broader option, giving the agent the document path and letting it decide how and what to read. Agent Skil…