Token budgets change agent capability
Added 2026-07-14 · Last verified 2026-07-14
UK AI Security Institute evaluations found that increasing an agent's token budget from 1 million to 10 million tokens improved success on software-engineering tasks by roughly 25 percent. Some long-horizon cybersecurity tasks can require budgets near 50 million tokens. A weak result may therefore reflect an exhausted reasoning budget rather than a hard capability limit.
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