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Publish 32 Tokens Is the Overfit Test.

Bertran, Roth, Wu (arXiv:2606.11045, 9 Jun 2026) showed that winning ML-agent strategies are highly compressible. This post steals the output-compression bottleneck, not the training setup: a claimed win that does not fit in 32 whitespace tokens is treated as overfit until a same-task replay says otherwise. First named strategy is the Display-trap recipe (17 tokens). Reproducer not run; the post says so.

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Not a lesson-holdout retread, not context compression, not a claim that the 17-token recipe already passed replay.

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This PR publishes a new blog post, _posts/2026-09-16-32-tokens-is-the-overfit-test.md, describing a proposed 32-token compression test for ML-agent strategies, and adds an Open Graph image asset. The post references a June paper, describes a recipe helper script and design note (not included in this diff), and presents a first named strategy with a 17-token recipe. It explicitly states the reproducer has not been run yet.

Safe to merge — no P0/P1 findings

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No findings. The diff looks correct to me on this pass.

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  • _posts/2026-09-16-32-tokens-is-the-overfit-test.md — Adds a new blog post describing a 32-token compression test for ML-agent strategies, with a first example recipe and explicit caveats about not yet running the reproducer.
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