Taming Agent Context Inflation: Integrating OpenViking for Cache-Aligned RAG and Token Optimization

At 3:14 AM last Thursday, our production multi-agent pipeline drained a $600 API quota buffer in 42 minutes. The culprit wasn't an infinite recursion loop or prompt injection—it was naive context concatenation. Every single reasoning hop re-serialized 48,000 raw tokens of vector search chunks, document metadata, and ephemeral scratchpad state...