Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering
- Entity ID:
ent-20260423-p2a006000001 - Type:
pattern - Scope:
private - Status:
active
Description
The paper's framing that the four extension mechanisms form a graduated cost ordering: Hooks (zero context cost) → Skills (low, descriptions only) → Plugins (medium, varies) → MCP (high, tool schemas). Cheap extensions scale widely; expensive ones reserved for genuine new tool surfaces.
Key claims
- Four extension mechanisms occupy a graduated context-cost ordering
Relations
- assemble() Injection Point --[part_of]--> Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering
- model() Injection Point --[part_of]--> Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering
- execute() Injection Point --[part_of]--> Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering
- Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering --[contains]--> MCPTool
- Graduated Context-Cost Extensibility Ordering --[contains]--> Plugin Manifest 10 Component Types