{
  "handle": "Context",
  "mechanism": "The portable execution environment and state container for an agent. It encapsulates: (1) Inherited Constraints (Safety/Budget), (2) Available Tools/Capabilities, (3) Working Memory (History/Variables), and (4) {{identity}} Claims. Context flows through delegation chains, acting as the 'Stack Frame' of the agentic system. It allows agents to be paused, moved, or cloned.",
  "gloss": "Portable execution environment with inherited constraints",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Context Contamination/Leak: Private data from one context leaking into another (e.g., across tenant boundaries).",
    "Context Poisoning: malicious prompts or data injected into the context to hijack agent behavior.",
    "Stale Context: Acting on outdated information after a long pause.",
    "Context Explosion: Size grows beyond the window limit of the model."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "{{constraint}} Monotonicity: Child contexts can ADD constraints but never REMOVE inherited ones.",
    "Serializability: The entire context must be serializable to JSON/Storage for persistence.",
    "Provenance: Every item in the context must be traceable to its source (Observation, User Input, or Inference)."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Parent context exists (or Root is created)",
    "Schema is defined"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Agent has a valid environment to execute."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "related": [
      "ContextCompress",
      "ContextSwitch",
      "AnchorDrop",
      "Nestmap#8b8f"
    ],
    "ring": 0,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Context#mh:SHA-256:510af8317d84bfff7dbba4ebbe2ae2a14d0e28ed8ed342a4e8dbc2e3294c1353",
      "sema:Context#mh:SHA-256:d5f79a21faef9ef640ab687c90a25cdf457a066fb6da23d247115b267c539132"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Data Structures"
    ]
  },
  "data_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "id": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "constraints": {
        "type": "array"
      },
      "history": {
        "type": "array"
      },
      "variables": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    }
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Context#mh:SHA-256:c1b72256dc4732033ee42cc07ff5d9fb60a7f1a3e5634449c343692a33340756",
  "sema_ref": "Context#c1b7",
  "sema_stub": "c1b7",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "constraint": "sema:Constraint#mh:SHA-256:70136d525260a10eedf156aad1fe6c50510eadb10a89d063c7a85575b15708fc",
      "identity": "sema:Identity#mh:SHA-256:b24a57fdd59ebf2ef019be30af8fa10fc127f61d346a74ab0b49f729b4e32093"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Data Structures",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Act": "sema:Act#mh:SHA-256:2dfedd75a396f2639ce949b9f5270766350b9c7404d404c11c57140fcf030455",
      "AgentSandbox": "sema:AgentSandbox#mh:SHA-256:1594a10a882956e4b8501764091e1d5025ba0b405cce34b7ef931bb17e5c634a",
      "BreadthGovernor": "sema:BreadthGovernor#mh:SHA-256:be54a4887d50ae1a49139c6c97d29a349c581d1af8f25f8554b13119700dd4d2",
      "ContextCompress": "sema:ContextCompress#mh:SHA-256:0bf5ce89d0ad9cac74bb69f253f06331989714d3c34bb0b385f9674439ce30b0",
      "ContextFirst": "sema:ContextFirst#mh:SHA-256:f157ec66ccb7e55eabe7179aeefb0dc4b36bc45e3bbea3073e50d97dab86138b",
      "DataMinimization": "sema:DataMinimization#mh:SHA-256:e8c8cd89b8e187d501000746c5216fef9ea41558a20fde07372881a2948994eb",
      "Defer": "sema:Defer#mh:SHA-256:7c32a314cc801adf391bbf775b29c5d15e3e230aa80c38290231f1ca897bf0f7",
      "DeliberativeAlign": "sema:DeliberativeAlign#mh:SHA-256:dc9e3078f126856429b1372620bce9fecd733f71c1429fcd1c0332908355051e",
      "EmpathySim": "sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:33c4c1083c17544686139953481e1467b780ec974093cbe6831cc710a5621d0a",
      "EvaluatorOptimizer": "sema:EvaluatorOptimizer#mh:SHA-256:ae098f2db7c18e00fa1dea16a305133a0778bd157652d5ee42b65f3bf86eef83",
      "HolographicShard": "sema:HolographicShard#mh:SHA-256:6e067dcfaca5b7d656f6de48b083cd44862ea18b45c1daa5cfa3eccd751f0d02",
      "Nestmap": "sema:Nestmap#mh:SHA-256:8b8f409b40e98c43817e4ee50d81d4c93ac62a614cb89ddb34087ddb0aef6437",
      "NoiseInjection": "sema:NoiseInjection#mh:SHA-256:99582fc78556fdadc8df343c9a670df7abb87c0030f668f30d6252a182cef083",
      "PerspectiveEnsemble": "sema:PerspectiveEnsemble#mh:SHA-256:4afd1d6c7abb339c91b3bd94f791e2f57638e9a8c5431757d2c7ae1d6ce8545d",
      "Proprioception": "sema:Proprioception#mh:SHA-256:d0e9504515812dc3406f58619c71e240ae407b847bb740d529cd91efaba4930f",
      "RequestFraming": "sema:RequestFraming#mh:SHA-256:2280a35647a93cf3f8b03ee5fb63f8c2ec6faf19ec9627e1d9144ffa231f551e",
      "RetrievalAugment": "sema:RetrievalAugment#mh:SHA-256:6f840cc4134b302b712d8f59dcca0c1b446c255369a8cea11031e884c16f3052",
      "SelfReminder": "sema:SelfReminder#mh:SHA-256:d7ea6ade4df9ca4285e3aefb5e995a34292412e1f715f1fa3646a2aa528694fd",
      "StrategicReading": "sema:StrategicReading#mh:SHA-256:b5d55501ddb51aa919170851ca51a337ae3b7bb29fd941190db809487e2b028c",
      "Task": "sema:Task#mh:SHA-256:a85010f508f85055170c396c8fa390125c1206888c565ac10651f3969a339f8d",
      "ToolInvoke": "sema:ToolInvoke#mh:SHA-256:1096039316801cc8ef6e2855a6300574bb8596bb8e57c2764fd3bee741fa217e",
      "WorkerMode": "sema:WorkerMode#mh:SHA-256:ba4708992ae8c4469b3c98e025829fafa8caf6430f1da66ed74b50a8e9255990"
    },
    "accepts": {
      "ContextSwitch": "sema:ContextSwitch#mh:SHA-256:aa928020743949b151e03433b563540eaf1bb56dad262297d2907bd0473931e2",
      "CreativeBlend": "sema:CreativeBlend#mh:SHA-256:95a09b1e3b6dc3dc18895c69b9bd0194b328f32c8ed683e41fb641e47c3f8c16",
      "Handoff": "sema:Handoff#mh:SHA-256:1323eea000780c4fc715bcc90b5ea28d6353c780ad561e86aeff723855650ab5",
      "Reason": "sema:Reason#mh:SHA-256:81ec8196c7c1c761fe353c8d26463bcb61b54f844aa3422a40019f82ef202321",
      "Think": "sema:Think#mh:SHA-256:5177aa242fffd16d7ed24e5f8c3e0d5e86c5a26e299cc2d4b8a07f4756126025"
    },
    "yields": {
      "Observe": "sema:Observe#mh:SHA-256:4a04c0e91f072dc02a4be52bca921c38c1be46e88b1f2bcb375076fdb5103e96"
    },
    "composes_with": {
      "OODA": "sema:OODA#mh:SHA-256:18821021e1b71305acddf87bb6014d8095a62ca7a37e89de4048b0676d028c53"
    }
  }
}