The Context Company

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.26760: Grow the Harness, Not the Context: From Strategy-Free Scaffolds to Reusable Specialist Agents

The CAFE(S) framework judges agent context on clarity, actionability, fidelity, efficiency, and security, but its fixes all assume context lives in documents. Some of what an agent needs is system behavior it could observe directly instead.

As a Palestinian journalist, I have spent my career explaining the context the world keeps ignoring. But I've come to realize that the context is itself the story, and we aren't done telling it.

The Elephant in the Context Window

Every company now has thousands of agents trying to get work done, and almost none of them know what the organization actually knows. Organizational context is a big data problem with its own 4Vs. What a context engine is, the five attributes that define

Learn why AI systems need a context layer, what comprises a context layer for AI-ready data, its benefits and implementation considerations.

Discover the context window in AI, defining how much text large language models can process simultaneously for generating responses.

Businesses must focus on context engineering, equipping AI models not only with data but also with the nuanced context that enables agents to generate measurable results.

Context-sensitivity is the self as seen by others. Being overly context-sensitive yields anxiety, but too little context-sensitivity is potentially antisocial or even sociopathic.