THE RECORD
SECTION 06
ISSUE 001
Compressed Context Needs Fidelity Guarantees
Hypothesis: Context-management vendors will sell verifiable fidelity guarantees: named decisions, constraints, citations, and unresolved questions must survive compaction within a declared error budget. The underlying compression already exists elsewhere in the issue; this idea is the acceptance contract around it. Adoption appears when buyers reject summaries that fail replay tests.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The cited captures document agent tooling, permissions, memory, and evaluation. They do not establish fidelity warranties for compressed context; the test is whether buyers enforce replayable preservation requirements and declared error budgets.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Introducing OpenAI Frontier
company announcement / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Introducing AgentKit
company announcement / dated 2025-10-06; updated 2026-06-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S03Introducing Claude Tag
company announcement / published 2026-06-23 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S04Concept Paper on Identity and Authority of Software Agents
government standardization / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S05Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl
analyst release / published 2026-04-28 / retrieved 2026-07-09