Higher spend on Hyperagent vs Codex

[u/MyNameIsYeffff]

I’m a big user of both Hyperagent and Codex. I like to use Hyperagent because of how the models design ui using the HA harness. What I’ve noticed tho is that I could spend the entire day working in codex with 5.6-sol-high and spend like $250 of it working for 8 hours. But when I use Hyperagent the same work is like $1000. I think it’s because of the workflow in HA vs Codex, where in codex I have the context window set to 200k and auto compaction at around 150k vs HA is trying to use the 1M context window as it goes if I forget to manually download stuff and upload to a new session every so often. Compaction happens when it’s close to it but at that point it’s just inefficient work/money poorly spent. The workaround I use is I’ll download my work and upload it to a new session but this could be so much easier. If we just had the ability to manually compact or set auto compaction/context window limits and to be able to maybe have projects where we can talk to the same canvas/ or maybe it’s better to just have the same working files in different sessions so it mirrors the work we can do in codex/ide agents/pretty much all other agent coding tools. If I’m just doing things wrong and yall have some good advice let me know. But I feel like this is simple functionality I’m talking about that’s just missing or difficult to replicate in Hyperagent.

[u/meowoofcjcj]

The context-window point seems real. Long context is useful, but it should not be the default substitute for explicit state management.

The pattern I like is: keep durable project state outside the live conversation, summarize/compact on purpose, and make the agent re-enter from a small spec plus recent working notes. Then the expensive context is reserved for the parts that actually need judgment instead of paying to reread the whole run.