Improve Agent Response Time

Use a representative question and inspect component results and execution logs to find the slow step. Change one setting at a time, then compare both response time and answer quality.

Slow step	What to check
Agent generation	Keep prompts focused, request a concise answer, and reduce unnecessary history. Use a faster model for simple formatting or classification tasks.
Planning and tool calls	Remove tools or sub-agents that the task does not need. Keep reflection and multi-step planning for tasks that benefit from them.
Retrieval	Compare with and without a Rerank model. Adjust Rerank candidate count and Top N while checking that the evidence needed for the answer is still returned.
External tools	Inspect individual tool durations, response sizes, timeouts, and provider errors before increasing retries.
Iteration	For independent items, try a bounded Maximum concurrency greater than 1. Respect model and service rate limits.

If the selected model provides reasoning settings, adjust them and compare response time and answer quality.

Retest a normal question, a question with no matching knowledge, and a tool failure after tuning. A faster answer is useful only if routing, evidence, and error handling still work.