Technical topic
Context, memory, and state
Production context assembly, memory governance, durable workflow state, provenance, and side-effect safety.
Questions answered
- Context, memory, and state: what is the difference?
A production design boundary for deciding what the model sees now, what the system may remember later, and what remains authoritative workflow truth.
- Why did my agent perform the same side effect twice after a timeout?
A retry-safe effect protocol using operation identity, idempotency, effect receipts, reconciliation, and explicit unknown completion states.
Primary field guide
Context Engineering in Production — Designing Memory, Retrieval, State, Provenance, and Long-Running Agent Workflows
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Reusable resources
- Agent run envelope schema (JSON Schema)