EnvOpt team reports 48% average agent-cost savings across five benchmarks

In the researchers’ tests, EnvOpt cut agent running costs by an average of 48% while maintaining or improving pass rates across five benchmarks. It reorganizes environments shared across many tasks, such as Slack archives and code repositories, rather than tuning the model. Less digital rummaging, same model. The team also documents failed optimizations, including bloated search results that made agents read more and spend more.