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Agent tasks often require maintaining context windows of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of tokens, which differs by orders of magnitude in resource consumption from the low-latency single-inference mode of ordinary code completion.
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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7/16/2026
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Valid until: 10/14/2026(expired)
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