Context & Memory
Context
How context is gathered, displayed, scoped, and shaped as a design material.
Observed Examples
The proposal distinguishes elicitation for non-sensitive data (existing spec) from a new mode for sensitive context like API keys and credentials, adding a security-tiered context-gathering pattern.
The research demonstrates that attribute information displayed on a results page — not positional context — is the dominant signal AI agents use to make purchase decisions.
The classifier operates as a separate browser-based agent, maintaining independence from the conversational AI to preserve user privacy and avoid conflict-of-interest in its judgments.
The paper analyzes 481 public CLAUDE.md files to show how developers use context-setting documents to express security intent that the model interprets rather than enforces.
MemUse introduces 'user-cued memory moments' as a benchmark for detecting when prior context is relevant and integrating it naturally, rather than treating memory as a retrieval task.
Code Mode exposes ~2,500 Cloudflare API endpoints in ~1,000 tokens by having the model generate code rather than enumerating tools, radically compressing context requirements.
The shift from engineer-facing Codex to general ChatGPT Work users surfaces the challenge of establishing appropriate context when users cannot interpret or validate code-level outputs.
Flue's harness model treats context as a first-class primitive managed via hooks, analogous to how React manages component state and side-effects.
Graphify converts codebases, docs, SQL schemas, and configs into a structured knowledge graph that agents query for context instead of relying on vector similarity search.
The tool ingests and maintains awareness of the full codebase as persistent context for ongoing agent actions.
Skills as discrete units require context-passing conventions to function correctly across different agent harnesses.
The core thesis is that every token in the orchestrator's context competes for its attention, making context protection the primary justification for subagent use.
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