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THE RECORD

SECTION 06

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONmarket1-3yconfidence / low

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.

  1. S01
    Introducing OpenAI Frontier

    company announcement / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Introducing AgentKit

    company announcement / dated 2025-10-06; updated 2026-06-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  3. S03
    Introducing Claude Tag

    company announcement / published 2026-06-23 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  4. S04
    Concept Paper on Identity and Authority of Software Agents

    government standardization / published 2026-02-05 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  5. S05
    Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl

    analyst release / published 2026-04-28 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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