🔍 What it is
A repository-exploration subagent for coding agents. Invoked on demand by your main agent, it fires parallel read-only tool calls (READ / GLOB / GREP) across a repo and returns only the file paths + line ranges that matter, as compact context. Your frontier coding agent stops wasting its context window (and your bill) crawling the file tree.
Microsoft's (now-deleted) announcement reported ~60% fewer tokens from the main coding agent and +5.5% on SWE-bench — their figures; the source no longer exists to cite.
Architecture: plain Qwen3ForCausalLM dense 4B — 36 layers, 256K native context. No exotic modules; loads with standard transformers.
🚀 Quick start
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("KikoCis/FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("KikoCis/FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT")
Don't want 8 GB? Grab the GGUF quants (1.96–2.5 GB, long-context imatrix, retrieval-validated 30/30 vs this bf16):
👉 KikoCis/FastContext-1.0-4B-longctx-imatrix-GGUF
⚠️ Good to know
- It's a scout, not a solver — it finds and returns evidence; pair it with a main coding agent that writes the actual fix.
- Upstream docs, harness code and issues were deleted along with the repos; usage conventions here come from the announcement and community mirrors.
- Weights are byte-identical to the (re-uploaded) original — no fine-tuning, no edits.
📚 Credit & license
Model, weights, training: © Microsoft (MIT). This is a preservation mirror sourced via the ShaunGves/FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT re-upload after microsoft/FastContext-1.0-4B-SFT was removed. Nothing modified. Quantized companion + validation: KikoCis.