State Awareness
The system's ability to maintain and use awareness of prior actions within a session. The opposite of State Loss.
State Awareness is the within-session counterpart to Context Continuity. Where Context Continuity is about remembering across sessions, State Awareness is about tracking what has happened in the current session: which files have been created, which functions have been modified, what decisions have been made, and what's left to do. An agent with high State Awareness can give you an accurate status report at any point during a task. An agent without it will lose track of its own work and require constant human supervision.
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Context Anxiety
The dread of re-explaining everything every session because the system has no persistent memory.
Ghost Knowledge
Facts that exist in the system but can't be traced to an author or source.
Context Rot
Deterioration of an agent's understanding over time due to limited memory and compaction.
State Loss
Failure to maintain awareness of prior actions.
Context Continuity
Seamless persistence of knowledge across sessions — the user never re-explains. The cure for Context Anxiety.
Memory Fidelity
The accuracy and completeness of what a system retains over time. The opposite of Context Rot.
Provenance Clarity
Every fact in the system is traceable to its author, source, and reasoning. The cure for Ghost Knowledge.
Recall Precision
The system retrieves exactly the right context at the right time — no noise, no gaps.