🚩 The industry is confusing history, knowledge, and trace with context.
And it is creating a mess.
Suddenly everything is called context.
Logs are context.
Documents are context.
Conversation history is context.
Decision traces are context.
Embeddings are context.
Dump it all into a graph and call it context engineering.
This is not context.
It is a bag of artifacts.
Because three completely different things are being mixed together.
🔹History: What happened before.
• events
• logs
• past interactions
• decision traces
🡢 History explains the past.
It does not define the current situation.
🔹Knowledge: How decisions should be made.
• policies
• rules
• decision models
• optimization logic
🡢 Knowledge describes the domain and defines how a decision should work.
It is not the current situation either.
🔹 Decision Trace: What happened during the decision.
• inputs used
• reasoning steps
• intermediate results
• final outcome
🡢 Decision trace explains how the decision was made.
None of these are context.
💡 Context is the information available about the subject at the moment the decision is made. It defines the situation.
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Published March 5th, 2026 at 07:30 am
