{"id":"cognitive-budget","text":"Cognitive budget principle borrowed from graphics frame budgets: decompose work into focused passes (TMS pass, RAG pass, merge pass) each within the model's attention budget. Mixing beliefs and document chunks in a single prompt degrades performance (Opus drops 95.5% to 86%); three focused passes achieve 100%","truth_value":"IN","source":"repo:beliefs-pi/entries/2026/05/04/cognitive-budget-borrows-from-graphics-frame-budget.md","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[],"dependents":["dual-path-architecture"],"metadata":{},"explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"cognitive-budget","truth_value":"IN","reason":"premise"}]}}