A Cost Model for Token Consumption of Hypermedia and the Model-Context-Protocol in Agentic LoopsRecent interest in LLM agents has created demand for agent-to-tool protocols, mechanisms by which agents can perform actions with remote systems.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830851
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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A Cost Model for Token Consumption of Hypermedia and the Model-Context-Protocol in Agentic Loops
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830851
authors
Carson Gross, Matthew Revelle
doi_url
https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830851
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
Recent interest in LLM agents has created demand for agent-to-tool protocols, mechanisms by which agents can perform actions with remote systems.
keywords
hypermedia; MCP; tool use; agents; cost model
published
2026-09-14
conference
HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3800935.3830851
ccs_concepts
CCS Concepts: • Information systems → World Wide Web ; • Information systems → Web services ; • Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence ;
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Carson Gross, Matthew Revelle
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
acm_reference_format
ACM Reference Format: Carson Gross and Matthew Revelle. 2026. A Cost Model for Token Consumption of Hypermedia and the Model-Context-Protocol in Agentic Loops. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 4 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830851