derive-budget-floor-five
IN premise
Each agent group and the non-agent group are guaranteed at least 5 belief slots in the prompt regardless of proportional budget allocation.
Summary
No matter how the belief budget is divided up proportionally, every group — whether it represents a specific agent or the ungrouped pool — will always get at least 5 slots included in the prompt. This prevents any group from being squeezed out entirely when the budget is small or when one dominant group would otherwise consume nearly all available space.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- derive-budget-is-efficient-and-floor-bounded — The derive pipeline's per-agent budget allocation is both computationally efficient (O(N) linear accumulation, not quadratic) and representation-safe (each agent and local group guaranteed at least 5 belief slots), ensuring proportional allocation never starves minority agents.
Details
| Source | entries/2026/04/24/reasons_lib-derive.md |