{"ID":2921794,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-02T02:42:49.606572591Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-03T05:56:00.181519634Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01326","arxiv_id":"2606.01326","title":"Reducing Token Usage of State-in-Context Agents using Minification","abstract":"This paper presents a replication and extension of the recently introduced state-in-context agent framework. We independently re-implement the DirectSolve variant and evaluate it on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark. We report end-to-end full-benchmark results using GPT-5-mini and run selected ablations with GPT-4.1. In addition, we investigate a complementary research question: What is the impact of token-reducing input transformation strategies on the performance of software engineering agents? Based on a preliminary prompt analysis, we identify source code as the dominant contributor to token consumption. We therefore apply a series of code minification techniques that remove or shorten non-essential lexical elements while preserving program semantics. The proposed transformations are integrated into the agent and systematically evaluated. Experiments show that minification reduces average input token usage by 42% with a 12 percentage-point drop in resolution rate. These findings demonstrate that lightweight source code transformations can yield substantial efficiency gains while retaining a substantial fraction of the baseline performance, indicating a promising path toward more cost-effective agents. The full implementation is publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/ipa-lab/minified-state-in-context-agent","short_abstract":"This paper presents a replication and extension of the recently introduced state-in-context agent framework. We independently re-implement the DirectSolve variant and evaluate it on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark. We report end-to-end full-benchmark results using GPT-5-mini and run selected ablations with GPT-4.1. In...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01326","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.01326v1","authors":"[\"Nicolas Hrubec\",\"Jürgen Cito\"]","published":"2026-05-31T16:24:22Z","proceeding":"cs.SE","tasks":"[\"cs.SE\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false,"code_links":[{"ID":612607,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-02T02:42:49.606572591Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-02T02:42:49.606572591Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_id":2921794,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01326","paper_title":"Reducing Token Usage of State-in-Context Agents using Minification","repo_url":"https://github.com/ipa-lab/minified-state-in-context-agent","is_official":false,"mentioned_in_paper":false,"mentioned_in_github":true,"github_stars":0}]}