News
Releases and the thinking behind them — what changed in Slipstream, and why.
16 June 2026
Even the best frontier models still waste the majority of tokens and context on bad architecture. One pattern — domain boundaries + events — turned our AI agents into a true 10x multiplier. It compounds over time and works even better with local open-source models. Here's the data and why it matters for long-term shipping.
Read the article →14 June 2026 · v0.1.5
Slipstream launched compressing the conversation with headroom. v0.1.5 adds a second engine — RTK — that compresses something headroom never touched: the output of the commands your agent runs. The two sit at different points in the pipeline and their savings stack. Here's the difference, why we added it, and how to turn it on — plus an honest note on what we're still learning about the combined effect.
Read the article →