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Agent Context in 2026: The Whole Map on One Page
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Dev.to | Oct 2, 2026 | astronaut
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Four principles show up again and again across independent 2026 sources: Pointers, not payloads. Some engineers forget to update the context files. ETH found that curated files beat generated ones (p=0. 038), and generated dumps only add cost.
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