Yash Singh - Research Papers

LLM agents, context engineering, and reliability. LaTeX sources at github.com/yashs33244/research-papers.

• The Format Tax: Answer-Only JSON Contracts Suppress Multi-Step Reasoning in Claude Sonnet 4.6, and One Schema Field Buys It Back (2026)
• The Compaction Half-Life: Measuring Fact Survival Under Iterated Context Summarization (2026)
• What Ships: A Practitioner's Catalogue of Applied AI Product Patterns in Startups, 2024-2026 (2026)
• Defense in Depth for Language-Model Applications (2026)
• From Agent Loops to Structured Graphs (2026)