In logged Qwen3-235B no-think jobs, gate arms used fewer agent tokens and completed faster than the raw and checklist arms despite adding matcher calls; the checklist was the most token-expensive because rendered state accumulated in history.

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: raw transcript · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: text checklist · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: directive gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: directive gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: directive gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think

arm: directive gate · brief: original · model: Qwen3-235B · steps: 10 · density: 0.15 · reasoning: no-think