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Progressive Crystallization: Turning Agent Exploration into Deterministic, Lower

AI agents deployed for IT operations are typically permanent cost centers because every execution requires full LLM inference, even for previously solved problems. This paper introduces progressive crystallization, a lifecycle that treats a

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07052v1 ↗
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