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title: "Cost relocation · Agentic Atlas"
description: "Cost relocation: moving when or by whom a payload's cost is paid: later (deferred context) or elsewhere (subagent offload)."
canonical: "https://agentic-atlas.dev/glossary/cost-relocation"
last-updated: "2026-08-19"
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Glossary definition

# Cost relocation

Atlas key

cost-relocation

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11

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moving when or by whom a payload's cost is paid: *later* (deferred context) or *elsewhere* (subagent offload). Relocation and transformation are orthogonal; a workflow may compose relocation with selection or distillation. ([cost relocation](https://agentic-atlas.dev/nodes/cost-relocation))

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