Paper 1 · Question 3

A: Running /compact again may help marginally, but the fundamental problem is that the agent's context has filled with verbose discovery output from 15 modules. Compacting alone does not restore the specific findings that have been lost to context degradation.

B: Subagent delegation isolates verbose exploration output from the main agent's context. The scratchpad file persists specific findings (class names, method signatures) across context boundaries. The main agent retains enough context for coordination without being overwhelmed by discovery output.

C: Re-exploring 15 modules wastes significant time and effort. The specific findings from earlier exploration are lost. A scratchpad file would have preserved them, and subagent delegation prevents the problem going forward.

D: Temperature affects output randomness, not the model's ability to recall specific findings from earlier in a long context. The problem is context degradation from verbose output accumulation, not generation settings.