Definition
What is Context Rot?
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The gradual degradation of an AI system's usefulness as the context it relies on becomes stale, incomplete, or outdated.
Context rot happens when the information you've provided to an AI tool no longer reflects reality: a product has changed, a team member left, a process was updated. Wire addresses context rot by making it easy to update containers and keep AI context current.
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Articles about Context Rot
Kimi K3's 1M context runs mostly on linear attention
Kimi K3's 1M-token window runs on Kimi Delta Attention: hybrid linear attention with a fixed-size state. Why cheap long context still needs context curation.
GPT-5.6 subagents: context isolation in the weights
GPT-5.6 Sol's Ultra mode gives each subagent its own context window. It solves context isolation but not handoff, and it multiplies your token bill fast.
AI agent reliability is a context problem
AI agent reliability fails because the same task assembles different context every run. Non-determinism is a context engineering problem, not a model flaw.
Context bloat: why long-running agents break
Context bloat is when accumulated tool-call output crowds out an agent's task. Tool calls, not window size, break long-running agents. Here is the fix.
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