Nace Drex for Search cuts agent model calls on document benchmarks
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcewww.nace.ai · Opens in a new tabNace introduces Drex for Search, which organizes a document workspace as a tree and uses recursive Drex calls to judge relevant branches and locate evidence, replacing exploratory ls, grep, and read loops. On OfficeQA Pro and CUAD, the report says main-agent model calls fell about 53% and 58% versus raw harnesses, with main-agent input tokens down about 57% and 43%, and mean answer scores were higher on both datasets. Workload figures exclude Drex inference.
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Nace introduces Drex for Search, which organizes a document workspace as a tree and uses recursive Drex calls to judge relevant branches and locate evidence, replacing exploratory ls, grep, and read loops. On OfficeQA Pro and CUAD, the report says main-agent model calls fell about 53% and 58% versus raw harnesses, with main-agent input tokens down about 57% and 43%, and mean answer scores were higher on both datasets. Workload figures exclude Drex inference.
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- Drex for Search reduced main-agent model calls by about 53% on OfficeQA Pro and 58% on CUAD versus raw harnesses.
- Main-agent input tokens fell about 57% on OfficeQA Pro and 43% on CUAD.
- Mean answer scores were reported higher on both datasets.
- Workload figures cover the main agent's work and exclude Drex inference.
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Nace.AI's report says delegating workspace navigation to its Drex decision model cut main-agent calls ~53%/58% and input tokens ~57%/43% on OfficeQA Pro and CUAD across six coding-agent harnesses, with higher mean answer scores. Vendor-run evaluation; ingestion cost is excluded. Primary page dated 2026-11-01; no time shown.
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Reducing navigation turns and context consumption addresses a practical cost and reliability bottleneck for agents searching large document collections, if the reported gains hold under independent testing.
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