Definition

What is Context as a Service?

A model for delivering structured, AI-optimized context to agents and tools on demand.

Instead of embedding context in every prompt or storing it in siloed tools, Context as a Service externalizes it into portable containers. AI agents query the service at runtime, getting exactly the context they need. Wire is a Context as a Service platform.

Related concepts
Context Container

A portable, shareable unit of organized context (documents, data, and structured information) made accessible to AI agents through MCP tools.

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

An open protocol that standardizes how AI applications provide context and tools to language models.

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AI Agent Context as a Service Context Container Structured Context Context Engineering Context Portability Context Rot Context Window MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP Server RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Fine-Tuning Semantic Search Multi-Agent System Context Compression Context Drift Context Poisoning Prompt Caching Wire

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