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Shared context, field notes.

Notes on giving human + AI teams one place for the context behind the work.

Agent alignment9 field notes
What Is the Difference Between Agent Memory and Context Engineering?: contextual figure explaining the topic and DM’s roleAgent alignment

What Is the Difference Between Agent Memory and Context Engineering?

Agent memory preserves information across steps or sessions. Context engineering decides which combination of memory, live state, retrieved evidence, tool.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Task framing, source eligibility, context selection, agent action and reviewed learning form a continuous architectureAgent alignment

Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Practical Architecture from Eligibility to Learning

A practical context-engineering architecture for AI agents: frame the task, select sources, compress safely, observe decisions and learn from outcomes.

Oct 2, 20266 min read
Contrasting a website-building prompt with selected brand, policy and product context; DM supplies reviewed organizational constraints, and both reach the coding agentAgent alignment

Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: Why Clear Instructions Still Produce the Wrong Work

Prompt engineering shapes instructions. Context engineering shapes the task state, tools, memory and organizational context an AI agent can use.

Oct 2, 20268 min read
An MCP tool response supplies evidence; approved task context is resolved separatelyAgent alignment

MCP Gives Agents Access to Tools. Who Decides Which Context Is Right?

MCP connects agents to tools and resources. It does not decide which organizational knowledge is trusted, current or applicable.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Retrieval, memory and context assembly contribute different inputs to an agent taskAgent alignment

RAG vs Agent Memory vs Context Engineering: Three Different Jobs

RAG retrieves information, agent memory preserves experience, and context engineering composes the right task-specific input from both.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Semantic retrieval finds passages while graph traversal follows dependencies and decisionsAgent alignment

Vector Database vs Knowledge Graph: Which Does AI Context Actually Need?

Vector databases find semantically similar content; knowledge graphs expose relationships. Compare where each helps AI context and why they can work together.

Oct 2, 20265 min read
Memory types contribute different information to a shared agent workflowAgent alignment

Types of AI Agent Memory: Working, Episodic, Semantic and Procedural

AI agent memory includes working, episodic, semantic and procedural state. Learn what each type stores and how it should enter a task.

Oct 2, 20265 min read
Task-scoped, approved context is selected from a larger collectionAgent alignment

Why Bigger Context Windows Don't Fix the Wrong Context

Larger context windows add capacity, but they do not solve relevance, placement, stale information, permissions or the cost of noisy context.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Approved rules reach a coding agent through scoped task contextAgent alignment

Why AI Coding Agents Ignore Team Standards Even When Their Code Works

AI coding agents optimize against the code they can see, not the decisions your team already made — producing technically-correct, organizationally-wrong code.

Aug 5, 20265 min read
Governance8 field notes
Context observability traces eligible context into an agent runGovernance

Context Observability for AI Agents: What Did the Agent Know, and Why?

Context observability records what an agent could use, what it received, what was excluded and why, alongside tools and outcomes.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Local episodes and reviewed shared context have different promotion boundariesGovernance

Private vs Shared Agent Memory: What Should Another Person's Agent Be Allowed to Recall?

Private and shared memory need explicit visibility classes, permissions and promotion paths so “remember this” has a clear audience.

Oct 2, 20264 min read
Evidence becomes reviewed context through proposal, human approval and lifecycleGovernance

Context Governance for AI Agents: From Raw Evidence to the Right Decision

Context governance decides which information is eligible to influence an AI agent, before relevance ranking and task-time composition.

Oct 2, 20267 min read
Why Relevant AI Context Can Still Be Wrong: Scope, Authority, Freshness and Permissions explanatory diagramGovernance

Why Relevant AI Context Can Still Be Wrong: Scope, Authority, Freshness and Permissions

Why a relevant AI search result may be wrong for the task, and how scope, authority, freshness and permissions change context selection.

Oct 2, 20265 min read
AI Can Extract Decision Rationale—but Who Approves What Becomes Memory?: contextual figure explaining the topic and DM’s roleGovernance

AI Can Extract Decision Rationale—but Who Approves What Becomes Memory?

AI can propose a candidate decision and supporting rationale from notes, tickets and conversations. It cannot infer organizational approval merely because.

Aug 8, 20263 min read
Enterprise Knowledge Fragmentation: Why More Search Is Not Enough explanatory diagramGovernance

Enterprise Knowledge Fragmentation: Why More Search Is Not Enough

Why documents across Slack, email, Jira and wikis cannot by themselves show which decisions are current, approved and applicable.

Aug 8, 20265 min read
The rationale behind a decision travels through delivery only when it is preservedGovernance

Why Teams Keep Re-Deciding: The Hidden Cost of Lost Decision Context

Teams have more tools and data than ever, yet decisions stay slow and get re-litigated. The problem isn't a lack of information — it's lost decision context.

Aug 8, 20265 min read
DM connects evidence and reviewed decisions to later human and agent tasksGovernance

What Is AuzzurA DM? Shared Context for Humans and AI Agents

DM governs organizational context for human + AI teams — not just agent memory, and not the same as the 'decision memory' concept it builds on.

Aug 5, 20264 min read