Context

The definition

The working information a system has in view right now, for this specific request. What is relevant this call — narrower than persistent context, and distinct from what is currently true.

The same words the glossary hub and the public data mirror carry; this page is the stable address for the term.

Related terms

• Persistent context

  Context — what a model sees in a given call — made to outlive a single session. Adjacent to continuity, but still about what is relevant to retrieve, not…

• Memory poisoning

  Corrupting an agent's persistent memory so that later sessions act on attacker-chosen content. Named ASI06, Memory & Context Poisoning, in the OWASP Top 10…

Where it shows up on this site

• Switch models, keep your context · LearnOne file any model can read, local or hosted
• The primer: memory is not continuity · ReferenceSix distinctions, seven contrasts, the five obligations in brief
• Why AI forgets · ReferenceContext windows, sessions and what resets
• Gemini CLI memory · GoogleGoogle's open-source agent that brings Gemini into the terminal, with GEMINI.md context files and saved memories. Google-account sign-in for individuals ended on 18 June 2026; API-key use continues. 6.5/8 on the coding agents tests.
• Cline memory · Cline Bot Inc.An open-source coding agent in your IDE, terminal and desktop, with rules and a documented Memory Bank pattern for carrying context between sessions. 7/8 on the coding agents tests.
• Zep Cloud memory · ZepA managed temporal knowledge-graph context layer for agents, with per-user graphs, threads and a context API, built on the open-source Graphiti engine. 6/8 on the memory systems tests.
• Supermemory memory · SupermemoryA memory and context engine offered as a hosted API and as a local single-binary server, with container-tag scoping and automatic forgetting of contradicted facts. 6/8 on the memory systems tests.
• Agent Framework memory memory · MicrosoftThe open-source successor to Semantic Kernel's memory: context providers that run before and after each turn, in-memory history providers, and a managed Foundry memory provider. 4/8 on the memory systems tests.