Herding CATs: ALARA for Agent Harness Engineering in Portable Composable Multi-Agent Teams

In three linesPaper introducing CAT (Context-Agent-Tool), a data layer for managing multi-agent teams. Applies ALARA principle (as low as reasonably achievable exposure) to context. Evaluates 22 models (0.6B–35B parameters) on 115 practical tasks via npcsh, a CLI shell. ~2500 executions test file operations, web search, multi-step scripting, tool chaining, and inter-agent delegation.

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